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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... sent a desperate message to General Lee , requesting reinforcements . The general immediately ordered Longstreet to send a division ; but by the time Longstreet received the order , huge masses of Federal troops , the main assault force ...
... sent a desperate message to General Lee , requesting reinforcements . The general immediately ordered Longstreet to send a division ; but by the time Longstreet received the order , huge masses of Federal troops , the main assault force ...
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... sent to boarding school. Of his childhood and adoles- cence, Williams concedes that “almost nothing is known,” because so few records have survived.2 At the lad's urging, Beauregard's father—though he was sur- prised and perhaps a bit ...
... sent to boarding school. Of his childhood and adoles- cence, Williams concedes that “almost nothing is known,” because so few records have survived.2 At the lad's urging, Beauregard's father—though he was sur- prised and perhaps a bit ...
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Contents
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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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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