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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... Manassas 18 P. G. T. Beauregard 35 Morgan's Raid: The War Strikes Home 52 Soldier of Conscience, George H. Thomas: A Virginian Fights for the Union 66 Lincoln's Presidential Example in Dealing with the Military 78 Part 2 Society in ...
... Manassas 18 P. G. T. Beauregard 35 Morgan's Raid: The War Strikes Home 52 Soldier of Conscience, George H. Thomas: A Virginian Fights for the Union 66 Lincoln's Presidential Example in Dealing with the Military 78 Part 2 Society in ...
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... Manassas This. 4. Nor, as readers know who are familiar with what I and my collaborators tried to prove, and surely did delineate, in Why the South Lost the Civil War (1986), do I attribute Confederate defeat to “overwhelming numbers and ...
... Manassas This. 4. Nor, as readers know who are familiar with what I and my collaborators tried to prove, and surely did delineate, in Why the South Lost the Civil War (1986), do I attribute Confederate defeat to “overwhelming numbers and ...
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... Manassas This essay was read at the 1989 Deep Delta Civil War Symposium and appeared in the annual volume that results from the symposium's proceedings; this particular volume was subtitled Themes in Honor of T. Harry Williams. It is ...
... Manassas This essay was read at the 1989 Deep Delta Civil War Symposium and appeared in the annual volume that results from the symposium's proceedings; this particular volume was subtitled Themes in Honor of T. Harry Williams. It is ...
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... Manassas, I always have felt, made his reputation initially, and, in the long period of his not being much noticed by Civil War enthusiasts, if he was recalled for one thing only it usually was for this episode. And I myself had never ...
... Manassas, I always have felt, made his reputation initially, and, in the long period of his not being much noticed by Civil War enthusiasts, if he was recalled for one thing only it usually was for this episode. And I myself had never ...
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... Manassas got short shrift , and I was awfully glad to have the opportunity at last , as a result of my being one of the featured speakers at a meeting there of Jerry Russell's Confed- erate Historical Institute . It is true that visits ...
... Manassas got short shrift , and I was awfully glad to have the opportunity at last , as a result of my being one of the featured speakers at a meeting there of Jerry Russell's Confed- erate Historical Institute . It is true that visits ...
Contents
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35 | |
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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