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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... Union 66 Lincoln's Presidential Example in Dealing with the Military 78 Part 2 Society in Wartime The War inside the Church 99 State Rights and Local Defense: The Crux of Frank L. Owsley's State-Rights Thesis Reexamined 111 “We Shall ...
... Union 66 Lincoln's Presidential Example in Dealing with the Military 78 Part 2 Society in Wartime The War inside the Church 99 State Rights and Local Defense: The Crux of Frank L. Owsley's State-Rights Thesis Reexamined 111 “We Shall ...
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... Union coast- line. Clearly the United States had the power to fight a two-front war and Hattaway adroitly suggests that a stalemate seemed likely and would have been too costly for Victoria's exchequer. Deftly written, boldly insightful ...
... Union coast- line. Clearly the United States had the power to fight a two-front war and Hattaway adroitly suggests that a stalemate seemed likely and would have been too costly for Victoria's exchequer. Deftly written, boldly insightful ...
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... political generals in The War within the Union High Command : Politics and Generalship during the Civil War ( Lawrence : University Press of Kansas , 2003 ) . perform well; it is important that he be neither too 3 Civil War Leadership.
... political generals in The War within the Union High Command : Politics and Generalship during the Civil War ( Lawrence : University Press of Kansas , 2003 ) . perform well; it is important that he be neither too 3 Civil War Leadership.
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... Union generals had become well-qualified military men be- fore hostilities began. There is at least one statistical indication that Northern generals as a group were more scholarly than Southern generals: of the gen- erals who had ...
... Union generals had become well-qualified military men be- fore hostilities began. There is at least one statistical indication that Northern generals as a group were more scholarly than Southern generals: of the gen- erals who had ...
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... Union Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside's egregious attack at Fred- ericksburg and Confederate Lt. Gen. Pemberton's disastrous retreat into Vicksburg, both sides conducted the war rather competently and realistically. If we are going to ...
... Union Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside's egregious attack at Fred- ericksburg and Confederate Lt. Gen. Pemberton's disastrous retreat into Vicksburg, both sides conducted the war rather competently and realistically. If we are going to ...
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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