Civil War generalship : the art of command
This is the first study of Civil War command since Douglas Southall Freeman's Lee's Lieutenants (1944) that has focused solely and directly with the problems and methods of operational command; in so doing, the author has dealt with the tactical and strategical problems that threatened to overwhelm untried Civil War generals at the very onset of hostilities. The failure of antebellum American military thought to come to grips with outdated linear tactics and inapplicable strategic principles resulted in commanders on both sides in the Civil War having to lead mass armies of untried civilian soldiers into a war for which neither the led nor the leader had been prepared to fight
History
xii, 269 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
9780275950545, 0275950549
34958876
The Sandwiched WarThe American Civil War in Western HistoryPre-Civil War American Military Thought"Lessons" from Napoleonic WarfareDefining an Art of CommandCedar Mountain: Meeting EngagementStonewall Jackson Plans and Conducts His CampaignNathaniel Banks and the Advance to Cedar MountainThe Battle of Cedar MountainWhat Happened at Cedar Mountain?Chickamauga: Lost Command, Lost VictoryRosecrans and His Chickamauga CampaignBraxton Bragg, Confederate Strategy, and the Tactical OffensiveThe Battle of ChickamaugaThe Two Perspectives of ChickamaugaNashville: The Last Great AdventureJohn B. Hood and Certain Differences in Confederate StrategyThe "Rock of Chickamauga" Prepares a New Kind of BattleThe Battle of NashvilleWhy Thomas Won More Than a VictoryReflectionsReferencesBibliographyIndex