THE MEANEST AND THE DAMNEST JOB
THE MEANEST AND THE DAMNEST JOB Most Civil War histories focus on the performance of top-level generals. Some of these were remarkably effective. However, it was the individual officers below them…
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THE MEANEST AND THE DAMNEST JOB
Most Civil War histories focus on the performance of top-level generals. Some of these were remarkably effective. However, it was the individual officers below them who actually led the troops to enact the orders.
He was a force to be reckoned with, both during the Civil War and in his post-war business ventures. One such officer was Edmund Winchester Rucker. He was courageous, tough and resourceful, and achieved significant results in every assignment.
During the campaign by the United States Army to capture the upper Mississippi River, Rucker and his faithful Confederate artillerists, with only three operable cannons, held off the entire Federal fleet which possessed 105 heavy guns. Later, in East Tennessee, Rucker's duties included punishing saboteurs and conscripting unwilling local citizens into the Confederate Army. He described these assignments as: "The meanest and damnest [sic]
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