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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... Staff 158 The Civil War Armies: Creation, Mobilization, and Development 169 The Evolution of Tactics in the Civil War 200 Epilogue: On Remembering and Reliving History 221 Index 237 Foreword For more than forty years Herman Hattaway has ...
... Staff 158 The Civil War Armies: Creation, Mobilization, and Development 169 The Evolution of Tactics in the Civil War 200 Epilogue: On Remembering and Reliving History 221 Index 237 Foreword For more than forty years Herman Hattaway has ...
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... staff assignments or at remote locations or they resigned. The attrition rate for all Confederate general officers amounted to nearly 30 percent. The South suffered 18 percent of its generals either killed in action or dying from wounds ...
... staff assignments or at remote locations or they resigned. The attrition rate for all Confederate general officers amounted to nearly 30 percent. The South suffered 18 percent of its generals either killed in action or dying from wounds ...
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... staff, not at that time himself also trying to command an army in the field). Thereafter, though Lee remained a constant and wise advisor , his removal from Richmond not only limited his. 3. It long has been a suspicion of mine that ...
... staff, not at that time himself also trying to command an army in the field). Thereafter, though Lee remained a constant and wise advisor , his removal from Richmond not only limited his. 3. It long has been a suspicion of mine that ...
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... staff 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 be- hind to fill the role he had been playing as ...
... staff 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 be- hind to fill the role he had been playing as ...
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... staff cost the Confederacy heavily. Not only did headquarters lack sufficient staff, but that weakness also drew the war secretary into the con- duct of operations. That the Confederacy could supply Richmond all during the siege of ...
... staff cost the Confederacy heavily. Not only did headquarters lack sufficient staff, but that weakness also drew the war secretary into the con- duct of operations. That the Confederacy could supply Richmond all during the siege 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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