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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... Army at some previous time, and those with some other type of military service. None of the three categories stands out as hav- ing produced more generals than did the others; they are almost equally divided. The move upward from major ...
... Army at some previous time, and those with some other type of military service. None of the three categories stands out as hav- ing produced more generals than did the others; they are almost equally divided. The move upward from major ...
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... army— and that was something which Lee never could see any advantage in! In defending his own army against reduction, Lee was led, tem- porarily, to repudiate the quite promising principle espoused by the western concentration bloc. In ...
... army— and that was something which Lee never could see any advantage in! In defending his own army against reduction, Lee was led, tem- porarily, to repudiate the quite promising principle espoused by the western concentration bloc. In ...
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... 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 Civil War scholarship has not ad- equately investigated and ...
... 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 Civil War scholarship has not ad- equately investigated and ...
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... army , and with the war in Virginia only , deprived him of the perspective needed to formulate broader and more bal- anced views . Lee's primary role with respect to grand strategy , then , amounted essentially to that of a brilliant ...
... army , and with the war in Virginia only , deprived him of the perspective needed to formulate broader and more bal- anced views . Lee's primary role with respect to grand strategy , then , amounted essentially to that of a brilliant ...
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... army background and outlook, his keen superiority as a military administrator, and, most important of all, his long history of good fortune gave him an unrealistic confidence in his grand military prescriptions. So sure that he could ...
... army background and outlook, his keen superiority as a military administrator, and, most important of all, his long history of good fortune gave him an unrealistic confidence in his grand military prescriptions. So sure that he could ...
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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