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 27
Page 27
... assault. But Jackson had selected an admirable defensive position behind an unfinished railroad bed. The grades and ... assaults, all of which failed. Jackson's men followed up the various repulses by advancing to seize positions forward ...
... assault. But Jackson had selected an admirable defensive position behind an unfinished railroad bed. The grades and ... assaults, all of which failed. Jackson's men followed up the various repulses by advancing to seize positions forward ...
Page 28
... assault upon the po- sition ) . No sources mention a stone wall , but remnants of one are there to this day . If it was not there at the time of the battle , it would have had to have been leveled before that time or built and ...
... assault upon the po- sition ) . No sources mention a stone wall , but remnants of one are there to this day . If it was not there at the time of the battle , it would have had to have been leveled before that time or built and ...
Page 30
... assaults . They fired frontally into the attacking troops , supported by the effective en- filade fire that Lee's position allowed . ) 23 The assault force , despite two attempts to rally itself , was thrown back . Douglas , who ...
... assaults . They fired frontally into the attacking troops , supported by the effective en- filade fire that Lee's position allowed . ) 23 The assault force , despite two attempts to rally itself , was thrown back . Douglas , who ...
Page 31
... assault, but they never moved up, intimidated by Lee's effective fire. Suffering tremendously from the continuing artillery bursts, three Federal regiments slashed desperately forward, in a futile at- tempt to assault Lee's guns. The ...
... assault, but they never moved up, intimidated by Lee's effective fire. Suffering tremendously from the continuing artillery bursts, three Federal regiments slashed desperately forward, in a futile at- tempt to assault Lee's guns. The ...
Page 34
... assault Lee's position and then thrust troops just to the right of it, breaking through the Confederate lines there and rolling laterally into Longstreet's minions.) Lee was the man of the moment. Had there been many more such moments ...
... assault Lee's position and then thrust troops just to the right of it, breaking through the Confederate lines there and rolling laterally into Longstreet's minions.) Lee was the man of the moment. Had there been many more such moments ...
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