Leading Up
Managing Your Boss So You Both Win
Chapter One
Informing Your Commander
General Robert E. Lee Informed His Commander in Chief, but Generals
Joseph E. Johnston and George B. McClellan Did Not, and Their Causes
Paid Dearly
The American Civil War brought to the fore hundreds of military
officers whose battlefield decisions have shaped our history. Some
proved adept in commanding troops, other proved disastrous. Some
worked exceedingly well with their superiors, others just the
opposite.
Those dexterous - or disastrous - at leading up could be found on
both the Union and Confederate sides of the battlefields. In this
resource, neither side dominated, and both sides discovered that its
supply often spelled the difference between triumph and disaster.
Nowhere is this more evident than in the contrasting styles of three
of the great generals of the Civil War: George B. McClellan, Joseph
E. Johnston, and Robert E. Lee.
By spring of 1862, a year after Confederate rebels fired on Federal
troops at Fort Sumter, South Carolina, a Union army under
McClellan's command was ... read full excerpt from LEADING UP ebook
