During the American Civil War, General William Farar "Baldy" Smith seemed always to be at the extremes of glory or blame. In October of 1863, he conducted the e

Lauded for gallantry at Antietam and demoted for insubordination after Fredericksburg, Major General William "Baldy" Smith remains a controversial figure of the

This expansive, multivolume reference work provides a broad, multidisciplinary examination of the Civil War period ranging from pre-Civil War developments and c