West Pointers and the Civil War : the old army in war and peace /
Most Civil War generals were graduates of West Point, and many of them helped transform the US Army from what was little better than an armed mob that performed poorly during the War of 1812 into the competent fighting force that won the Mexican War. This title offers a portrait of the American army...
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| פורמט: | Licensed eBooks |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press
2009.
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| סדרה: | Civil War America (Series)
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| גישה מקוונת: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9780807898567_hsieh |
תוכן הענינים:
- Colonials, continentals, and federals : the origins of American military professionalism
- Tactical expertise and the U.S. Army before the war with Mexico
- The old army's vindication : the Mexican war
- Tactical continuity in the decade before the Civil War
- The beginning of the end : the old army on the precipice
- War in earnest : the first battles of 1861
- The Peninsula : Lee and McClellan leave their legacies
- Morale, cohesion, and competence from Second Bull Run to Missionary Ridge
- Decisions east and west : the end of the Civil War.