    
Title: Henry W. Halleck Description: Henry W. Halleck (Henry Wager Halleck; AKA: Old Brains; January 16, 1815-January 9, 1872), American military officer (USMA, 1839), and Union Major General in command of the Western Theater during the early stages of the Civil War before becoming commander-in-chief of all U.S. armies in the war until that post was given to Ulysses S. Grant (Hiram Ulysses Grant; April 27, 1822-July 23, 1885), American military officer, Lieutenant General and commander of all Union armies (from 1863) during the Civil War, and eighteenth President of the U.S. (1869-1877); Halleck had exception organizational, administrational and logistical skills, who advocated defensive warfare, but was overly cautious and often inert when aggressive action was called for, President Lincoln once describing him as "little more than a first-rate clerk" Category: American Civil War Keywords: American Civil War, Federal generals, Federal officers, military leaders, Union generals, Union officers, U.S. Grant, War Against the South: War Between the States, War for the South, War for the Southern Confederacy, War for the Union, War of the Rebellion. Orientation: Portrait Dimensions: 1800 x 2150 (3.87 MPixels) (1.19) Print Size: 15.2 x 18.2 cm; 6.0 x 7.2 inches File Size: 11.10 MB (11,636,484 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000259980 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection |
