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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... Richmond to Savannah into a “ pipeline ” full of troops which they could concentrate at any threatened point . The Confederacy applied a similar concept less systematically to the defense of the line from Richmond to Chattanooga , a ...
... Richmond to Savannah into a “ pipeline ” full of troops which they could concentrate at any threatened point . The Confederacy applied a similar concept less systematically to the defense of the line from Richmond to Chattanooga , a ...
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... Richmond would have had to supply good di- rection and constantly restructure departmental lines to reflect the changing military situation, and this was not adequately done.3 Beginning with an array of miniature departments, Davis grad ...
... Richmond would have had to supply good di- rection and constantly restructure departmental lines to reflect the changing military situation, and this was not adequately done.3 Beginning with an array of miniature departments, Davis grad ...
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... Richmond to take command of what soon be- came known as the Army of Northern Virginia , he took with him the staff officers that had constituted an embryonic general staff . While working in Richmond , they were an enormously important ...
... Richmond to take command of what soon be- came known as the Army of Northern Virginia , he took with him the staff officers that had constituted an embryonic general staff . While working in Richmond , they were an enormously important ...
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... Richmond all during the siege of Petersburg, from June 1864 through March 1865, shows, however, that the Southern system could be made to work. But the absorption in the concerns of day-to-day operations by both the president and the ...
... Richmond all during the siege of Petersburg, from June 1864 through March 1865, shows, however, that the Southern system could be made to work. But the absorption in the concerns of day-to-day operations by both the president and the ...
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... Richmond as a princi- pal military advisor. So, as the winter months of 1864 unfolded and the North went about preparing to end the war with a final offen- sive, the Confederate president did little more than argue with Joseph E ...
... Richmond as a princi- pal military advisor. So, as the winter months of 1864 unfolded and the North went about preparing to end the war with a final offen- sive, the Confederate president did little more than argue with Joseph E ...
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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