Valor, Talent, And Patronage: Civil War Service Influenced A Future President's Political Views

Authors

Mitchell McNaylor

ISBN

873386574

Publication Date

2000-05-01

Publisher

Kent State University Press

Abstract

"I knew you as a soldier, a congressman, as governor, and now as President-elect. How shall I address you?" asked a well-wisher shortly after American voters elected William McKinley. "Call me Major," McKinley replied. "I earned that. I am not so sure of the rest." William H. Armstrong, an Ohioan an....

DOI

10.31390/cwbr.2.3.30

Recommended Citation

McNaylor, Mitchell (2000) "Valor, Talent, And Patronage: Civil War Service Influenced A Future President's Political Views," Civil War Book Review: Vol. 2 : Iss. 3 .
DOI: 10.31390/cwbr.2.3.30
Available at: https://repository.lsu.edu/cwbr/vol2/iss3/30