Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: monographic
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Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
HubbellJohn T, |
Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
Project Muse |
Place of Publication: |
Kent, Ohio |
Published: |
Kent State University Press; |
Year of Publication: |
c2012 |
Description: |
1 online resource (xiii, 365 p.). |
Series: |
Civil War history readers |
Subject: |
Military art and science - History - United States - 19th century - |
Subject: |
Generals - Confederate States of America - |
Subject: |
Generals - History - United States - 19th century - |
Subject: |
Command of troops - History - 19th century - |
Subject: |
United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - |
Online resource: |
http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781612776316/ |
Notes: |
Includes index |
ISBN: |
9781612776316electronic bk. |
ISBN: |
1612776310electronic bk. |
ISBN: |
9781606351185pbk. |
Content Note: |
"We should grow too fond of it" : why we love the Civil War / Drew Gilpin Faust -- Was the Civil War a total war? / Mark Neely Jr -- A "face of battle" needed : an assessment of motives and menin Civil War historiography / Marvin R. Cain -- The Confederacy's first shot / Grady McWhiney -- The professionalization of George B. McClellan and early field command / Edward Hagerman -- Pinkerton and McClellan : who deceived whom? / Edwin C. Fishel -- McClellan and Halleck at war : the struggle for the Union war effort in the West, November 1861-March 1862 / Ethan S. Rafuse -- Jefferson Davis's pursuit of ambition : the attractive features of alternative decisions / Richard E. Beringer -- "The enemy at Richmond" : Joseph E. Johnston and the Confederate government / Richard M. McMurry -- Anold-fashioned general in a modern war? : Robert E. Lee as Confederate general / Gary W. Gallagher -- Marse Robert and the fevers : a note on the general as strategist and on medical ideas as a factorin Civil War decision making / Richard M. McMurry -- Everyman's war : a rich and poor man's fight in Lee's army / Joseph T. Glatthaar -- Another look at Grant's crossing of the James, 1864 / Brian Holden Reid -- Mars and the reverend Longstreet, or, Attacking and dying in the Civil War / Albert Castel -- Who whipped whom? : Confederate defeat reexamined / Grady McWhiney |