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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... 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 Cease to Be ...
... 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 Cease to Be ...
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... Lincoln , Jefferson Davis had no powerful and vocal radicals advocating their strategic ideas and pushing to greater prominence certain favored generals . Though Davis was pressured to provide for the defense of every lo- cality , this ...
... Lincoln , Jefferson Davis had no powerful and vocal radicals advocating their strategic ideas and pushing to greater prominence certain favored generals . Though Davis was pressured to provide for the defense of every lo- cality , this ...
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... Not only did Davis lack Lincoln's opportunity to reflect upon and refine plans , tasks appropriated in the Confederacy primarily by Beauregard, but he was also physically and emotionally exhausted by Civil War Leadership 13.
... Not only did Davis lack Lincoln's opportunity to reflect upon and refine plans , tasks appropriated in the Confederacy primarily by Beauregard, but he was also physically and emotionally exhausted by Civil War Leadership 13.
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... Lincoln assuredly did) Davis's interaction with his generals became vastly more complex and problematical. Davis failed to make peace, or come to terms, with Beauregard, from whom he had early become alienated. Hence he failed to get ...
... Lincoln assuredly did) Davis's interaction with his generals became vastly more complex and problematical. Davis failed to make peace, or come to terms, with Beauregard, from whom he had early become alienated. Hence he failed to get ...
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... Lincoln's reelection. To conclude, I do not believe that the Confederate generals com- pare significantly unfavorably to the Northern generals. For every nincompoop such as a Theophilus Holmes or a Felix Zollicoffer there is on the ...
... Lincoln's reelection. To conclude, I do not believe that the Confederate generals com- pare significantly unfavorably to the Northern generals. For every nincompoop such as a Theophilus Holmes or a Felix Zollicoffer there is on the ...
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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