Francis F. McKinney, Education In Violence, 1st ed.

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Francis F. McKinney’s Education in Violence: The Life of George H. Thomas and the History of the Army of the Cumberland was the first comprehensive modern biography of the Union’s great Virginian.

Written with perception and understanding, this is an exhaustive biography of “The Rock of Chickamauga” and will remain definitive. Thomas here emerges as a man of courage and dignity, strength and humility. Long unappreciated, McKinney restores the stature denied him by the Grant legend.

“You stood like a rock,” Secretary of War Stanton wrote to Thomas in 1863, “and that stand gives you fame which will grow brighter as the ages go by.”

Very good; dust jacket. Scarce in 1st edition.

McKinney, Francis F. EDUCATION IN VIOLENCE: THE LIFE OF GEORGE H. THOMAS AND THE HISTORY OF THE ARMY OF THE CUMBERLAND. Detroit: 1961. 1st edition, 530p., frontispiece, illustrations, maps; includes publisher’s ephemera.