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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... tion of the entire matter of state rights and the Southern war effort. Equally cogent is his critique, in “We Shall Cease to Be Friends,” of U.S.-British relations after the Trent affair. The threatened war would have forced British ...
... tion of the entire matter of state rights and the Southern war effort. Equally cogent is his critique, in “We Shall Cease to Be Friends,” of U.S.-British relations after the Trent affair. The threatened war would have forced British ...
Page xiv
... tion during the summer of 2002 confirmed my suspicions. I am hopelessly an urbanite. I was fortunate to be awarded an appointment as Visiting Pro- fessor of Military Art, 1990–1991, at the U.S. Military Academy, West Point. That was the ...
... tion during the summer of 2002 confirmed my suspicions. I am hopelessly an urbanite. I was fortunate to be awarded an appointment as Visiting Pro- fessor of Military Art, 1990–1991, at the U.S. Military Academy, West Point. That was the ...
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... tion above brigadier came from families with professional ties. Modern wars—and the Civil War sometimes has been called “the first modern war”—require at least as much managerial skill from the generals who conduct them as they require ...
... tion above brigadier came from families with professional ties. Modern wars—and the Civil War sometimes has been called “the first modern war”—require at least as much managerial skill from the generals who conduct them as they require ...
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... tion. Eighty percent of the total had graduated from college. More than one-half of those above brigadier had graduated from West Point. Of the twenty-five highest-ranking Southern generals, only Nathan Bedford Forrest was not a college ...
... tion. Eighty percent of the total had graduated from college. More than one-half of those above brigadier had graduated from West Point. Of the twenty-five highest-ranking Southern generals, only Nathan Bedford Forrest was not a college ...
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... tion at the most critical point. Both the civilian and the military leadership of the Confederacy agreed on this, but they disagreed over whether they should apply this system and concept to an of- fensive. The partisans of the ...
... tion at the most critical point. Both the civilian and the military leadership of the Confederacy agreed on this, but they disagreed over whether they should apply this system and concept to an of- fensive. The partisans of the ...
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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