The blackstone of military law [electronic resource] : Colonel William Winthrop / Joshua E. Kastenberg ; Martin Gordon, consulting editor.
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TextPublication details: Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2009.Description: ix, 342 pISBN: - 9780810863019 (electronic bk.)
- 0810863014 (electronic bk.)
- 340.092 B 22
- KF368.W58 K37 2009
Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-342).
A privileged lineage -- From youth to Yale : the making of a legal mind -- Bostonian lawyer with stirrings of abolitionism -- Frontier lawyer in the Minnesota Territory -- The Winthrop brothers go to war -- A sharpshooter on the Peninsula Campaign -- From Second Manassas to Fredericksburg : "I had some pretty close escapes" -- Civil War judge advocate -- Professionalizing a "Constitutional Army" in a time of uncertainty : 1865-1895 -- Professionalizing the practice of military law : Winthrop's influence cemented -- Marriage and field service under the command of John M. Schofield -- West Point professor to the end of a career -- Epilogue : retirement and death.
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