Description:
John A. Logan, called "Black Jack" by the men he led in Civil War battles from the Henry-Donelson campaign to Vicksburg, Chattanooga, and on to Atlanta, was one of the Union Army's most colorful generals. James Pickett Jones places Logan in his southern Illinois surroundings as he examines the role of the political soldier in the Civil War.
Review Quotes:
"Jones produces almost a day-by-day account of Logan's activities both political and military during the war. But the book is more than a chronology of Logan's life during this period. Unlike some one-sided campaign biographies of Logan that were published at that time, Jones' volume gives a fairly objective account of how the soldier and the politician were interwoven in this charismatic and complicated individual."--Southern Illinoisan