Halleck
Lincoln's Chief of Staff
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Before the Civil War, Halleck was one of America's few important theorists on the higher art of war, and it was in large part due to his efforts that the doctrines of Baron Henri Jomini were widely accepted by Civil War generals.
Campaigns and battlesCivil War, 1861-1865HistoryHalleck, h. w. (henry wager), 1815-1872CampaignsUnited States Civil War, 1861-1865Military campaigns