A Crisis in Confederate Command
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Publisher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 342 |
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ISBN | : 9780807140673 |
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Publisher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 342 |
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Author | : John Lewis Peyton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 700 |
Release | : 1867 |
Genre | : Confederate States of America |
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Author | : Jeffery Scott Prushankin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Generals |
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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.
Author | : Cecil William Battine |
Publisher | : London, New York [etc.] Longmans, Green and Company |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 1905 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : Jeffery S. Prushankin |
Publisher | : Government Printing Office |
Total Pages | : 60 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Missouri |
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If the Civil War had a "forgotten theater," it was the Trans-Mississippi West. Starting in 1861 with the Lincoln administration's desire to maintain control of the far west, Jeffery Prushankin covers battles in New Mexico, Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas, including Pea Ridge in March 1862 and Pleasant Hill in April 1864. The Red River Expedition and Price's Raid are also described. The narrative places these campaigns and battles in their strategic context to show how they contributed to the outcome of the war.
Author | : Steven E. Woodworth |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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Jefferson Davis is a historical figure who provokes strong passions among scholars. Through the years historians have place him at both ends of the spectrum: some have portrayed him as a hero, others have judged him incompetent.
Author | : Gary W. Gallagher |
Publisher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2020-09-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807174068 |
In the seventy-three succinct essays gathered in The Enduring Civil War, celebrated historian Gary W. Gallagher highlights the complexity and richness of the war, from its origins to its memory, as topics for study, contemplation, and dispute. He places contemporary understanding of the Civil War, both academic and general, in conversation with testimony from those in the Union and the Confederacy who experienced and described it, investigating how mid-nineteenth-century perceptions align with, or deviate from, current ideas regarding the origins, conduct, and aftermath of the war. The tension between history and memory forms a theme throughout the essays, underscoring how later perceptions about the war often took precedence over historical reality in the minds of many Americans. The array of topics Gallagher addresses is striking. He examines notable books and authors, both Union and Confederate, military and civilian, famous and lesser known. He discusses historians who, though their names have receded with time, produced works that remain pertinent in terms of analysis or information. He comments on conventional interpretations of events and personalities, challenging, among other things, commonly held notions about Gettysburg and Vicksburg as decisive turning points, Ulysses S. Grant as a general who profligately wasted Union manpower, the Gettysburg Address as a watershed that turned the war from a fight for Union into one for Union and emancipation, and Robert E. Lee as an old-fashioned general ill-suited to waging a modern mid-nineteenth-century war. Gallagher interrogates recent scholarly trends on the evolving nature of Civil War studies, addressing crucial questions about chronology, history, memory, and the new revisionist literature. The format of this provocative and timely collection lends itself to sampling, and readers might start in any of the subject groupings and go where their interests take them.
Author | : Jay W. Simson |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 2008-08-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0786436530 |
With the ascendancy of Ulysses S. Grant in late 1863, the command tone of the United States Army underwent a dramatic change. While Grant's predecessor George McClellan had been overly cautious about committing troops and resources to fight the South, Grant held the philosophy that a war fought for total ends required total means. Philip Sheridan set about reorganizing the army to reflect Grant's new style. During the last six months of the war, he relieved three generals of their commands because of their inability to follow his orders precisely. William Averell, Alfred Torbert and Gouverneur Warren found themselves and their careers casualties of Sheridan's intense determination to bring an end to the hostilities. Only Ranald S. Mackenzie managed to survive Sheridan's search for effective leaders, proving himself the ideal subordinate.
Author | : John Ashworth |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 221 |
Release | : 2012-08-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107024080 |
Meticulously analyses the political climate in the years leading up to the American Civil War and the causes of that conflict.