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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... 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 absolve Ulysses S. Grant for Cold Harbor, as well I ...
... 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 absolve Ulysses S. Grant for Cold Harbor, as well I ...
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... attack in order to extricate himself and recover his communications. This was a feat so difficult that even Napoleon achieved it only rarely, and so it was that the Civil War generals did not do so very many times either. The war's ...
... attack in order to extricate himself and recover his communications. This was a feat so difficult that even Napoleon achieved it only rarely, and so it was that the Civil War generals did not do so very many times either. The war's ...
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... attacking the enemy's logistics. Even an inferior mounted force was formidable in this role, and the near parity enjoyed by ... attack failed at Chickasaw Bayou.2 That battle later lent some credence to the myth—popular in some quarters ...
... attacking the enemy's logistics. Even an inferior mounted force was formidable in this role, and the near parity enjoyed by ... attack failed at Chickasaw Bayou.2 That battle later lent some credence to the myth—popular in some quarters ...
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Contents
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P G T Beauregard | 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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