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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... officers typically and frequently were in the field, often in direct contact with the troops they commanded, led, and managed. The average age of the higher- ranking, active-duty Civil War general trended downward as the war progressed ...
... officers typically and frequently were in the field, often in direct contact with the troops they commanded, led, and managed. The average age of the higher- ranking, active-duty Civil War general trended downward as the war progressed ...
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... officer. In 1860 only one-half of the men who later became Civil War generals were in active military service. The others, the civilians who became general officers, can be divided into three categories: those with no Civil War Leadership ...
... officer. In 1860 only one-half of the men who later became Civil War generals were in active military service. The others, the civilians who became general officers, can be divided into three categories: those with no Civil War Leadership ...
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... officers. (This was owing to a particular bias of President Jefferson Davis.) At least half of the civilians who became generals had taken an active part in politics before the Civil War, and men with political experience tended to ...
... officers. (This was owing to a particular bias of President Jefferson Davis.) At least half of the civilians who became generals had taken an active part in politics before the Civil War, and men with political experience tended to ...
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... officers amounted to nearly 30 percent. The South suffered 18 percent of its generals either killed in action or dying from wounds. The position of Confederate brigadier general carried more danger than the other generalcies: 20 percent ...
... officers amounted to nearly 30 percent. The South suffered 18 percent of its generals either killed in action or dying from wounds. The position of Confederate brigadier general carried more danger than the other generalcies: 20 percent ...
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... officers that had constituted an embryonic general staff. While working in Richmond, they were an enormously important experiment in moving toward modernity. But Lee left no one behind to fill the role he had been playing as chief of ...
... officers that had constituted an embryonic general staff. While working in Richmond, they were an enormously important experiment in moving toward modernity. But Lee left no one behind to fill the role he had been playing as chief of ...
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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