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The Blackstone of military law: Colonel William Winthrop
2009, Scarecrow Press
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0810861771 9780810861770
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Table of Contents
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
Retirement and epilogue.
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references.

