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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... effective aids to promotion, but only in combination. Individuals who lacked either variable did discern- ibly less well in attaining high Civil War rank. Seventeen of the top twenty-five Confederate generals possessed both ...
... effective aids to promotion, but only in combination. Individuals who lacked either variable did discern- ibly less well in attaining high Civil War rank. Seventeen of the top twenty-five Confederate generals possessed both ...
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... effective under Beauregard than it had been under Johnston, even this large division lacked the resources essential to combating Sherman's Military Division of the Mississippi. The Con- federacy's military departmental organization was ...
... effective under Beauregard than it had been under Johnston, even this large division lacked the resources essential to combating Sherman's Military Division of the Mississippi. The Con- federacy's military departmental organization was ...
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... effective defense of his own theater could play in wearing down the enemy's will to win . Though he was a master of the Napoleonic method , Lee's strat- egy remained essentially defensive , and this was how he fought most of his battles ...
... effective defense of his own theater could play in wearing down the enemy's will to win . Though he was a master of the Napoleonic method , Lee's strat- egy remained essentially defensive , and this was how he fought most of his battles ...
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... effective against personnel and in covering “ dead spaces ” in a field of fire . Basing a best guess on the rapid mo- bility of Lee's battalion , his howitzers probably were the 12 - pounders , which had a maximum range of 1,070 yards ...
... effective against personnel and in covering “ dead spaces ” in a field of fire . Basing a best guess on the rapid mo- bility of Lee's battalion , his howitzers probably were the 12 - pounders , which had a maximum range of 1,070 yards ...
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... effective en- filade fire that Lee's position allowed . ) 23 The assault force , despite two attempts to rally itself , was thrown back . Douglas , who witnessed it , recalled that the first “ assaulting 21. Ibid . 22. Henry Kyd Douglas ...
... effective en- filade fire that Lee's position allowed . ) 23 The assault force , despite two attempts to rally itself , was thrown back . Douglas , who witnessed it , recalled that the first “ assaulting 21. Ibid . 22. Henry Kyd Douglas ...
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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American American Civil War Archer Jones Army of Tennessee artillery assault attack balloon battalion batteries battle Beauregard became Beringer brigade British campaign cavalry chief civil religion Colonel command Confederacy Confederate armies conscripts corps Davis’s defeat defense early enemy entrenchments essay Federal fight fire forces Fort Sumter Georgia Glatthaar Governor Grant guns Halleck Herman Hattaway historian Ibid infantry Jackson James Jefferson Davis John Johnston later Lee’s Lincoln lines Longstreet Louisiana major March McClellan ment Military History militia Mississippi nation North Carolina North Won Northern officers operations organization Owsley Owsley's P. G. T. Beauregard position president raid raiders rank rebel reenactors regiment Richmond River S. D. Lee Second Manassas Secretary Sherman slavery soldiers South Lost Southern staff Stanton Stephen strategy Sumter tactics theater Thomas Thomas’s tion troops Union army United University Press Vance veterans victory Virginia volunteer war’s West Point western theater Williams wrote Yankee York