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| Size | 5.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 2000 items) |
| Abstract | Thomas B. Buell, a retired naval officer, is author of The Warrior Generals: Combat Leadership in the Civil War (1997); Master of Sea Power: A Biography of Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King (1980); and The Quiet Warrior: A Biography of Admiral Raymond A. Spruance (1974). The collection contains drafts of Buell's book, The Warrior Generals: Combat Leadership in the Civil War; comments by Jim Abrahamson, Don Higginbotham, and Herman Wouk, and others on the book; research notes; and other items relating to the book. Also included is material relating to a two-act play, "The Puritan and the Cavalier," by Buell, adapted in 1998 from The Warrior Generals. |
| Creator | Buell, Thomas B. |
| Curatorial Unit | Southern Historical Collection |
| Language | English. |
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Biographical Information
Thomas B. Buell, a retired naval officer and a former warship commander, is author of The Warrior Generals: Combat Leadership in the Civil War (1997). His publications Master of Sea Power: A Biography of Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King (1980); and The Quiet Warrior: A Biography of Admiral Raymond A. Spruance (1974) both received the Alfred Thayer Mahan Award for Literary Achievement and the Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature. He also published Naval Leadership in Korea : The First Six Months in 2002. A 1958 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, Buell also attended the Naval Postgraduate School and the Naval War College. Following his command at sea, he taught military history at the Naval War College and the U.S. Military Academy. Buell was also a writer-in-residence in the history department at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a guest lecturer in history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University. Retired Naval Commander Thomas B. Buell died on 26 June 2002.
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Scope and Content
Drafts of Thomas Buell's 1997 Civil War book, The Warrior Generals: Combat Leadership in the Civil War; comments by Jim Abrahamson, Don Higginbotham, and Herman Wouk on the book; research notes; and a few other items relating to the book. Also included is material relating to a two-act play, "The Puritan and the Cavalier," by Buell, adapted in 1998 from The Warrior Generals.
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Papers, 1992-1998.
Arrangement: by type of material.
Drafts of Thomas Buell's Civil War book, The Warrior Generals: Combat Leadership in the Civil War; comments by Jim Abrahamson, Don Higginbotham, and Herman Wouk on the book; research notes; and a few other items relating to the book. Buell's folder titles for the research notes and other supporting material have, for the most part, been retained.
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Additions
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Addition of December 1998 (Acc. 98251), ca. 1995-1997.
RESTRICTED: Some computer files are restricted.
Materials relating to the publication of Buell's book The Warrior Generals: Combat Leadership in the Civil War (1997). Note that materials are identified according to Buell's notes, which have been retained as received.
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Addition of December 2000 (Acc. 98800)
1998.
Typescript of a two-act play, "The Puritan and the Cavalier," by Thomas Buell, adapted in 1998 from the book, The Warrior Generals.
| Folder 63 |
"The Puritan and the Cavalier" |
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Addition of January 2002 (Acc. 99161) .
Arrangement: Alphabetical by subject. Note that original file folder titles have, for the most part, been retained.
Research materials, notes, and other papers relating to Thomas Buell's Civil War book, The Warrior Generals: Combat Leadership in the Civil War. Included are research materials on Civil War generals Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, Francis C. Barlow, John B. Hood, and George H. Thomas.