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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... public . This series includes books that will appeal to Civil War Roundtable groups , individuals , libraries , and academics . with a special interest in this era of American history . Also by Herman Hattaway General Stephen D. Lee How ...
... public . This series includes books that will appeal to Civil War Roundtable groups , individuals , libraries , and academics . with a special interest in this era of American history . Also by Herman Hattaway General Stephen D. Lee How ...
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... interest has been biography. I have been equally interested in studying the lives of people with well-known names and reputa- tions and individuals of lesser rank. Burl Noggle, one of my LSU professors, agreed with me during my ...
... interest has been biography. I have been equally interested in studying the lives of people with well-known names and reputa- tions and individuals of lesser rank. Burl Noggle, one of my LSU professors, agreed with me during my ...
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... interest . I thought perhaps I might acknowledge this tendency with a new and more specifically descriptive title , but decided not to do so . Good leadership ranked equally with adequate manpower as a factor in determining the Civil ...
... interest . I thought perhaps I might acknowledge this tendency with a new and more specifically descriptive title , but decided not to do so . Good leadership ranked equally with adequate manpower as a factor in determining the Civil ...
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... interest in having a graduate student work on S. D. Lee, and that it became my job to do so. Whatever else Lee may have been, and however good a general he was, he certainly has been good for me! His life made an acceptable book, and ...
... interest in having a graduate student work on S. D. Lee, and that it became my job to do so. Whatever else Lee may have been, and however good a general he was, he certainly has been good for me! His life made an acceptable book, and ...
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Contents
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18 | |
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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