Reflections of a Civil War Historian: Essays on Leadership, Society, and the Art of WarUniversity of Missouri Press, 2004 - 254 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 53
Page xi
... Southern war effort. Equally cogent is his critique, in “We Shall Cease to Be Friends,” of U.S.-British relations after the Trent affair. The threatened war would have forced British efforts in Canada, where operations would have been ...
... Southern war effort. Equally cogent is his critique, in “We Shall Cease to Be Friends,” of U.S.-British relations after the Trent affair. The threatened war would have forced British efforts in Canada, where operations would have been ...
Page xiv
... Southern history, and religion studies. So I was very lucky to have landed a job at the University of Missouri–Kansas City in 1969. Some of my former classmates were not able to find employment at all as university professors ...
... Southern history, and religion studies. So I was very lucky to have landed a job at the University of Missouri–Kansas City in 1969. Some of my former classmates were not able to find employment at all as university professors ...
Page 4
... Southern gener- als had been given a rank above brigadier. The average age for South- ern generals was 44.8 years; Northerners were slightly younger. At the war's end, seventy-six Confederate officers with major general- cies or higher ...
... Southern gener- als had been given a rank above brigadier. The average age for South- ern generals was 44.8 years; Northerners were slightly younger. At the war's end, seventy-six Confederate officers with major general- cies or higher ...
Page 5
... Southern generals, only Nathan Bedford Forrest was not a college graduate. Experience— that is, prior military experience—was an important factor: promo- tion to the higher grades of general proved almost impossible for men without any ...
... Southern generals, only Nathan Bedford Forrest was not a college graduate. Experience— that is, prior military experience—was an important factor: promo- tion to the higher grades of general proved almost impossible for men without any ...
Page 8
... Southern upbringing, parentage, and family ties—achieved it three times: at Fort Donelson, Vicksburg, and Appo- mattox, though in every case either with the aid of inept or weakened opposition. Count Alfred von Schlieffen's later tongue ...
... Southern upbringing, parentage, and family ties—achieved it three times: at Fort Donelson, Vicksburg, and Appo- mattox, though in every case either with the aid of inept or weakened opposition. Count Alfred von Schlieffen's later tongue ...
Contents
3 | |
18 | |
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 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
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