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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Page ix
... First General Staff 158 The Civil War Armies: Creation, Mobilization, and Development 169 The Evolution of Tactics in the Civil War 200 Epilogue: On Remembering and Reliving History 221 Index 237 Foreword For more than forty years ...
... First General Staff 158 The Civil War Armies: Creation, Mobilization, and Development 169 The Evolution of Tactics in the Civil War 200 Epilogue: On Remembering and Reliving History 221 Index 237 Foreword For more than forty years ...
Page xiv
... first post. At least it has proved to be pleasant living in Kansas City. There are 2,500 four-year institutions of higher education in the United States, more or less (a few new ones are created and a few die out every year). At least ...
... first post. At least it has proved to be pleasant living in Kansas City. There are 2,500 four-year institutions of higher education in the United States, more or less (a few new ones are created and a few die out every year). At least ...
Page xv
... first three decades in harness. Any recipients of Ph.D.'s from my place of employment, before my rise to a fair mea- sure of national prominence, would surely have had a hard time se- curing desirable employment. But, as it has turned ...
... first three decades in harness. Any recipients of Ph.D.'s from my place of employment, before my rise to a fair mea- sure of national prominence, would surely have had a hard time se- curing desirable employment. But, as it has turned ...
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... first full year, forty-eight 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 ...
... first full year, forty-eight 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 ...
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... first lieutenant generals and named Braxton Bragg a full general, the last man to attain that rank in the South's regular army. (In 1864 Hood was named a full general, but the Confederate Congress later asserted that rank to be a ...
... first lieutenant generals and named Braxton Bragg a full general, the last man to attain that rank in the South's regular army. (In 1864 Hood was named a full general, but the Confederate Congress later asserted that rank to be a ...
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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