# The Brigade Commander

Author: De Forest, John William, 1826-1906

Genre: US Civil War

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/23182

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Brigade+Commander+De+Forest&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

He was the idol, not because he was good and gracious, not because he spared his soldiers or treated them as fellow-citizens, but because he had led them to victory and made them famous. If a man will win battles and give his brigade a right to brag loudly of its doings, he may have its admiration and even its enthusiastic devotion, though he be as pitiless and as wicked as Lucifer.

## Chapters

- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-brigade-commander-23182/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-brigade-commander-23182/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-brigade-commander-23182/chapters/3/index.md)