With A Sword In One Hand Jomini In The Other
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With A Sword In One Hand And Jomini In The Other
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Author : Carol Reardon
language : en
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Release Date : 2012-05-21
With A Sword In One Hand And Jomini In The Other written by Carol Reardon and has been published by Univ of North Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-21 with History categories.
When the Civil War began, Northern soldiers and civilians alike sought a framework to help make sense of the chaos that confronted them. Many turned first to the classic European military texts from the Napoleonic era, especially Antoine Henri Jomini's Summary of the Art of War. As Carol Reardon shows, Jomini's work was only one voice in what ultimately became a lively and contentious national discourse about how the North should conduct war at a time when warfare itself was rapidly changing. She argues that the absence of a strong intellectual foundation for the conduct of war at its start--or, indeed, any consensus on the need for such a foundation--ultimately contributed to the length and cost of the conflict. Reardon examines the great profusion of new or newly translated military texts of the Civil War years intended to fill that intellectual void and draws as well on the views of the soldiers and civilians who turned to them in the search for a winning strategy. In examining how debates over principles of military thought entered into the question of qualifications of officers entrusted to command the armies of Northern citizen soldiers, she explores the limitations of nineteenth-century military thought in dealing with the human elements of combat.
The Commanders Of Chancellorsville
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Author : Edward G. Longacre
language : en
Publisher: HarperChristian + ORM
Release Date : 2005-07-31
The Commanders Of Chancellorsville written by Edward G. Longacre and has been published by HarperChristian + ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-07-31 with History categories.
The award-winning Civil War historian explores the battle between two strikingly different generals: “Fighting Joe” Hooker and Robert E. Lee. As equally matched in skill as they were opposite in personality, the brash Union Gen. Joseph Hooker boasted of a sure defeat of the reserved Gen. Robert E. Lee. “I’ve got Robert E. Lee right where I want him, and even God Himself cannot stop me from destroying him,” boasted Hooker. Yet the battle of Chancellorsville stands as Lee’s greatest triumph. The story of the two generals has never been explored as it is here. “Fighting Joe” Hooker was brilliant, but also profane and bombastic, and his army so undisciplined that their pursuit of camp “followers” spawned the modern euphemism for prostitute. Robert E. Lee, equally gifted, was known as the definitive devout, self-controlled Southern gentleman, leading an army that was exhausted, underfed, and outmanned. Chancellorsville stands not just as a pivotal battle of the Civil War but as the personal war between two warriors—stalking, striking, and counter-striking their way to ultimate victory or defeat. Praise for the work of Edward G. Longacre, a winner of the Fletcher Pratt and Douglas Southall Freeman awards “Breezy and informative . . . Longacre remains even handed throughout and maintains a lively pace.” —Publishers Weekly “Well-researched, fast paced.” —Pennsylvania History
The New American Way Of War
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Author : Ben Buley
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2007-10-22
The New American Way Of War written by Ben Buley and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-10-22 with History categories.
By tracing the origins and evolution of the competing views on the political utility of force, this book sets the currently popular image of a new American way of war in its broader historical, cultural and political context, and provides an assessment of its future prospects.
Journal Of The Civil War Era
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Author : William A. Blair
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2013-06-01
Journal Of The Civil War Era written by William A. Blair and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-01 with History categories.
The Journal of the Civil War Era Volume 3, Number 2 June 2013 TABLE OF CONTENTS Editor's Note William Blair Articles Stephen Cushman When Lincoln Met Emerson Christopher Phillips Lincoln's Grasp of War: Hard War and the Politics of Neutrality and Slavery in the Western Border Slave States, 1861–1862 Jonathan W. White The Strangely Insignificant Role of the U.S. Supreme Court in the Civil War Review Essay Yael Sternhell Revisionism Reinvented? The Antiwar Turn in Civil War Scholarship Professional Notes Gary W. Gallagher The Civil War at the Sesquicentennial: How Well Do Americans Understand Their Great National Crisis? Book Reviews Books Received Notes on Contributors The Journal of the Civil War Era takes advantage of the flowering of research on the many issues raised by the sectional crisis, war, Reconstruction, and memory of the conflict, while bringing fresh understanding to the struggles that defined the period, and by extension, the course of American history in the nineteenth century.
The Military Leadership Of The North And The South
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Author : Thomas Harry Williams
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1960
The Military Leadership Of The North And The South written by Thomas Harry Williams and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1960 with Generals categories.
The Harmon Memorial Lectures In Military History
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1960
The Harmon Memorial Lectures In Military History written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1960 with Military history categories.
Lincoln S Gamble
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Author : Todd Brewster
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2015-08-11
Lincoln S Gamble written by Todd Brewster and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-11 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A brilliant, authoritative, and riveting account of the most critical six months in Abraham Lincoln's presidency, when he penned the Emancipation Proclamation and changed the course of the Civil War.
Gulf South Rebels Insurgents And Revolutionaries 1700 1860
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Author : Paul Barba
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2025-04-07
Gulf South Rebels Insurgents And Revolutionaries 1700 1860 written by Paul Barba and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-04-07 with History categories.
Gulf South Rebels, Insurgents, and Revolutionaries is a collection of essays on the tangled yet variegated histories of rebellious actors in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Gulf South and its linked environs. Following diverse rebels, revolutionaries, militants, insurgents, opportunists, and subversives from the early eighteenth-century alluvial floodplains of Louisiana to the mid-nineteenth-century coastal prairies of southeast Texas, this volume recasts the Gulf South as a centripetal region in the history of early America, a place where worlds collided, overlapped, combined, and renewed themselves, where revolutionary fervor could thrive and percolate, mix, and coagulate. Bound together by violence, exploitation, greed, honor, family, community, and ideological commitment, Gulf South rebels drew from longer traditions of insurgency, even as they forged new ones. Their legacies would resonate well beyond their seemingly localized disturbances, from the Caribbean to western Europe, illuminating how Indigenous, Black, and Euro-American Gulf South rebels operated in a rapidly shrinking, colonial world.
The Best School
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Author : James L. Morrison
language : en
Publisher: Kent State University Press
Release Date : 1998
The Best School written by James L. Morrison and has been published by Kent State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with History categories.
"The Best School": West Point, 1833-1866 is based on thorough & meticulous research, & makes a valuable contribution to the history of both the Civil War & American higher education.
Thoughts On War
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Author : Phillip S. Meilinger
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Release Date : 2020-03-17
Thoughts On War written by Phillip S. Meilinger and has been published by University Press of Kentucky this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-17 with History categories.
“A remarkable work that challenges the received wisdom of Clausewitz’s On War . . . [a] paradigm as to how to wage combat in our modern global environment.” —John A. English, author of Monty and the Canadian Army War is changing. Unlike when modern military doctrine was forged, the United States no longer mobilizes massive land forces for direct political gain. Instead, the US fights small, overseas wars by global mandate to overthrow dictators, destroy terrorist groups, and broker regional peace. These conflicts hardly resemble the total wars fought and expected by foundational military theorists such as Carl von Clausewitz, yet their paradigms are ingrained in modern thinking. The twenty-first-century’s new geopolitical situation demands new principles for warfare—deemphasizing decisive land victory in favor of airpower, intelligence systems, and indigenous ground forces. In Thoughts on War, Phillip S.Meilinger confronts the shortcomings of US military dogma in search of a new strategic doctrine. Inter-service rivalries and conventional theories failed the US in lengthy Korea, Vietnam, and Middle East conflicts. Jettisoning traditional perspectives and their focus on decisive battles, Meilinger revisits historical campaigns looking for answers to more persistent challenges—how to coordinate forces, manipulate time, and fight on two fronts. This provocative collection of new and expanded essays offers a fresh, if controversial, perspective on time-honored military values, one which encourages a critical revision of US military strategy. “Meilinger presents a new strategic and operational paradigm for how to fight and win tomorrow’s wars with reduced risk and cost. This book will appeal not only to military professionals, but to scholars and civilian policymakers as well.” —Colonel John Andreas Olsen, Royal Norwegian Air Force, author of Airpower Pioneers