Halleck:_Lincoln's_Chief_of_Staff
Halleck: Lincoln's Chief of Staff
Biography by Stephen E. Ambrose of Union Civil War general Henry W. Halleck
Halleck: Lincoln's Chief of Staff is the biography of Union Army General-in-Chief Henry Halleck written by Stephen E. Ambrose and published in 1962.[1] In this book, which originated as a dissertation, Ambrose provides an interpretation contrary to previous assessments of this "controversial figure" from the American Civil War.[2]