The Strategy of Robert E. Lee
Author | : John Joseph Bowen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : John Joseph Bowen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Joseph L. Harsh |
Publisher | : Kent State University Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Confederate States of America |
ISBN | : 9780873385800 |
This analysis of the military policy and strategy adopted by Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis in the first two years of the Civil War, argues that their policies allowed the Confederacy to survive longer than it otherwise could have and were the policies best designed to win Southern independence.
Author | : Joseph L. Harsh |
Publisher | : Kent State University Press |
Total Pages | : 692 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Confederate States of America |
ISBN | : 9780873386319 |
Harsh attempts to discover what they believed their responsibilities were and what they tried to accomplish; to evaluate the human and logistical resources at their disposal; and to determine what they knew and when they learned it."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Edward H. Bonekemper |
Publisher | : Sergeant Kirkland's Press |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1999-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781887901338 |
This book challenges the general view that Robert E. Lee was a military genius who staved off inevitable Confederate defeat against insurmountable odds. Instead, the author contends that Lee was responsible for the South's loss in a war it could have won. Instead, as this book demonstrates, Lee unnecessarily went for the win, squandered his irreplaceable troops, and weakened his army so badly that military defeat became inevitable. It describes how Lee's army took 80,000 casualties in Lees first fourteen months of command-while imposing 73,000 casualties on his opponents. With the Confederacy outnumbered four to one, Lee's aggressive strategy and tactics proved to be suicidal. Also described arc Lee's failure to take charge of the battlefield (such as on the second day of Gettysburg), his overly complex and ineffective battle plans (such as those at Antietam and during the Seven Days' campaign), and his vague and ambiguous orders (such as those that deprived him of Jeb Stuart's services for most of Gettysburg). Bonekemper looks beyond Lee's battles in the East and describes how Lee's Virginia-first myopia played a major role in crucial Confederate failures in the West. He itemizes Lee's refusals to provide reinforcements for Vicksburg or Tennessee in mid-1863, his causing James Longstreet to arrive at Chickamauga with only a third of his troops, his idea to move Longstreet away from Chattanooga just before Grant's troops broke through the undeemanned Confederates there, and his failure to reinforce Atlanta in the critical months before the 1864 presidential election. Bonekemper argues that Lee's ultimate failure was his prolonging of the hopeless and bloody slaughter even afterUnion victory had been ensured by a series of events: the fall of Atlanta, the re-election of Lincoln, and the fall of Petersburg and Richmond. Finally, the author explores historians' treatment of Lee, including the deification of him by failed Confederate generals attempting to resurrect their own reputations. Readers will not fred themselves feeling neutral about this stinging critique of the hero of The Lost Cause.
Author | : Judith Giesberg |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 2017-02-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1469631288 |
Civil War soldiers enjoyed unprecedented access to obscene materials of all sorts, including mass-produced erotic fiction, cartes de visite, playing cards, and stereographs. A perfect storm of antebellum legal, technological, and commercial developments, coupled with the concentration of men fed into armies, created a demand for, and a deluge of, pornography in the military camps. Illicit materials entered in haversacks, through the mail, or from sutlers; soldiers found pornography discarded on the ground, and civilians discovered it in abandoned camps. Though few examples survived the war, these materials raised sharp concerns among reformers and lawmakers, who launched campaigns to combat it. By the war's end, a victorious, resurgent American nation-state sought to assert its moral authority by redefining human relations of the most intimate sort, including the regulation of sex and reproduction—most evident in the Comstock laws, a federal law and a series of state measures outlawing pornography, contraception, and abortion. With this book, Judith Giesberg has written the first serious study of the erotica and pornography that nineteenth-century American soldiers read and shared and links them to the postwar reaction to pornography and to debates about the future of sex and marriage.
Author | : Bevin Alexander |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Strategy |
ISBN | : |
Examines the military genius of Robert E. Lee and evaluates the performances of the generals from the North and South, including the military strategies used in the Civil War.
Author | : J. J. Bowen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2015-07-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781330814369 |
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Author | : Steven E. Woodworth |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 438 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Woodworth shows how the lack of a unified purpose and strategy in the East sealed the Confederacy's fate.
Author | : John Joseph Bowen |
Publisher | : Legare Street Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022-10-27 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781016769693 |
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Author | : Ethan Sepp Rafuse |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780742551251 |
In this reexamination of the last two years of Lee's storied military career, Ethan S. Rafuse offers a clear, informative, and insightful account of Lee's ultimately unsuccessful struggle to defend the Confederacy against a relentless and determined foe. This book provides a comprehensive, yet concise and entertaining narrative of the battles and campaigns that highlighted this phase of the war and analyzes the battles and Lee's generalship in the context of the steady deterioration of the Confederacy's prospects for victory.