Reflections of a Civil War Historian: Essays on Leadership, Society, and the Art of WarUniversity of Missouri Press, 2004 - 254 pages |
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... Lost the Civil War (with Richard E. Beringer, Archer Jones, and William N. Still Jr.) Three Years with Quantrill: A True Story Told by His Scout, John McCorkle (editor, with Albert Castel) Letters from Forest Place: A Plantation ...
... Lost the Civil War (with Richard E. Beringer, Archer Jones, and William N. Still Jr.) Three Years with Quantrill: A True Story Told by His Scout, John McCorkle (editor, with Albert Castel) Letters from Forest Place: A Plantation ...
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... did on Why the South Lost the Civil War, was a tricky business, a nerve-racking experience which I would never attempt again and would not recommend to anyone. During my time in higher academia, jobs have been scarce xiii Preface.
... did on Why the South Lost the Civil War, was a tricky business, a nerve-racking experience which I would never attempt again and would not recommend to anyone. During my time in higher academia, jobs have been scarce xiii Preface.
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... lost the element of surprise and the Union counterconcentration had made such an operation unrealistic. The massing of troops in North Carolina may even have caused Davis and Lee to harbor unrealistic expectations in 1864 about what ...
... lost the element of surprise and the Union counterconcentration had made such an operation unrealistic. The massing of troops in North Carolina may even have caused Davis and Lee to harbor unrealistic expectations in 1864 about what ...
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... lost. But Davis did nothing of the kind. Fourth, and most egregiously, the Confederate president overem- phasized the importance of the Virginia theater and neglected the crucial needs of the West. There are complex reasons why this was ...
... lost. But Davis did nothing of the kind. Fourth, and most egregiously, the Confederate president overem- phasized the importance of the Virginia theater and neglected the crucial needs of the West. There are complex reasons why this was ...
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... lost because of Davis's physical sickliness. Not only was Davis sickly, he seems also to have been inclined to choose sickly men to lead the Confederacy's armies! And sickliness, to be sure, is a form of weakness. But whatever the ...
... lost because of Davis's physical sickliness. Not only was Davis sickly, he seems also to have been inclined to choose sickly men to lead the Confederacy's armies! And sickliness, to be sure, is a form of weakness. But whatever the ...
Contents
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The War Strikes Home | 52 |
A Virginian | 66 |
Lincolns Presidential Example in Dealing with the Military | 78 |
The War inside the Church | 99 |
The Crux of Frank L | 111 |
We Shall Cease to Be Friends | 133 |
Civil War to World War I | 147 |
The War Board the Basis of the United States | 158 |
Creation Mobilization | 169 |
The Evolution of Tactics in the Civil War | 200 |
On Remembering and Reliving History | 221 |
Index | 237 |
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American American Civil War Archer Jones Army of Tennessee artillery assault attack balloon battalion batteries battle Beauregard became Beringer brigade British campaign cavalry chief civil religion Colonel command Confederacy Confederate armies conscripts corps Davis’s defeat defense early enemy entrenchments essay Federal fight fire forces Fort Sumter Georgia Glatthaar Governor Grant guns Halleck Herman Hattaway historian Ibid infantry Jackson James Jefferson Davis John Johnston later Lee’s Lincoln lines Longstreet Louisiana major March McClellan ment Military History militia Mississippi nation North Carolina North Won Northern officers operations organization Owsley Owsley's P. G. T. Beauregard position president raid raiders rank rebel reenactors regiment Richmond River S. D. Lee Second Manassas Secretary Sherman slavery soldiers South Lost Southern staff Stanton Stephen strategy Sumter tactics theater Thomas Thomas’s tion troops Union army United University Press Vance veterans victory Virginia volunteer war’s West Point western theater Williams wrote Yankee York