General Scott (Great Commanders) [Winfield]

xii, [2], 349, [7] pp. 8vo. Frontispiece of Winfield Scott, five battlefield maps in text. A biography of the military commander who served in the War of 1812, and as Commanding General of the United States Army during the Mexican War and the early days of the American Civil War. He was a presidential candidate for the Whig party in the 1850s, and the first to earn the rank lieutenant general since George Washington.