Author: Alfred Roman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Confederate States of America
Languages : en
Pages : 750

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Author: Alfred Roman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Confederate States of America
Languages : en
Pages : 623

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Author: Alfred Roman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Confederate States of America
Languages : en
Pages : 626

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Author: Sean Michael Chick
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781611215212
Category : Generals
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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Few Civil War generals attracted as much debate and controversy as Pierre Gustav Toutant Beauregard. He combined brilliance and charisma with arrogance and histrionics. Sean Michael Chick explores a life of contradictions and dreams unrealized--the first real hero of the Confederacy who sometimes proved to be his own worst enemy.

Author: Alfred Roman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783337598747
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 620

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Author: T. Harry Williams
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781258658915
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 376

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An Examination Of The Life And Tactics Of The Controversial Confederate General. Southern Biography Series.

Author: Alfred Roman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Confederate States of America
Languages : en
Pages : 358

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Author: Alfred Roman
Publisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 9780306805479
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Dr. Christopher R. Gabel
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1782895698
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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Includes 4 figures, 13 maps and 4 tables. Renowned Military Historian Dr Christopher Gabel investigates the effects of the Railroad on the strategies employed by both the Union and Confederate Generals of the Civil War. According to an old saying, “amateurs study tactics: professionals study logistics.” Any serious student of the military profession will know that logistics constantly shape military affairs and sometimes even dictate strategy and tactics. This excellent monograph by Dr. Christopher Gabel shows that the appearance of the steam-powered railroad had enormous implications for military logistics, and thus for strategy, in the American Civil War. Not surprisingly, the side that proved superior in “railroad generalship,” or the utilization of the railroads for military purposes, was also the side that won the war.

Author: Donald Stoker
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199752567
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 514

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Despite the abundance of books on the Civil War, not one has focused exclusively on what was in fact the determining factor in the outcome of the conflict: differences in Union and Southern strategy. In The Grand Design, Donald Stoker provides for the first time a comprehensive and often surprising account of strategy as it evolved between Fort Sumter and Appomattox. Reminding us that strategy is different from tactics (battlefield deployments) and operations (campaigns conducted in pursuit of a strategy), Stoker examines how Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis identified their political goals and worked with their generals to craft the military means to achieve them--or how they often failed to do so. Stoker shows that Davis, despite a West Point education and experience as Secretary of War, ultimately failed as a strategist by losing control of the political side of the war. Lincoln, in contrast, evolved a clear strategic vision, but he failed for years to make his generals implement it. And while Robert E. Lee was unerring in his ability to determine the Union's strategic heart--its center of gravity--he proved mistaken in his assessment of how to destroy it. Historians have often argued that the North's advantages in population and industry ensured certain victory. In The Grand Design, Stoker reasserts the centrality of the overarching plan on each side, arguing convincingly that it was strategy that determined the result of America's great national conflict.