The Blackstone of military law
Subtitle: Colonel William Winthrop
By: Joshua E. Kastenberg.
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9780810861770; 9780810863019
Subjects: Winthrop, William, -- 1831-1899; Judge advocates -- United States -- Biography; Lawyers -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Biography; Lawyers -- Minnesota -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: A privileged lineage; title: From youth to Yale : the making of a legal mind; title: Bostonian lawyer with stirrings of abolitionism; title: Frontier lawyer in the Minnesota Territory; title: The Winthrop brothers go to war; title: A sharpshooter on the Peninsula Campaign; title: From Second Manassas to Fredericksburg : "I had some pretty close escapes"; title: Civil War judge advocate; title: Professionalizing a "constitutional army" in a time of uncertainty : 1865-1895; title: Professionalizing the practice of military law : Winthrop's influence cemented; title: Marriage and field service under the command of John M. Schofield; title: West Point professor to the end of a career; title: Retirement and epilogue.