All for the regiment
Subtitle: the Army of the Ohio, 1861-1862
By: Gerald J. Prokopowicz.
Series: Civil War America
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
Subjects: United States. Army of the Ohio; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Regimental histories; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns; Kentucky -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns; Tennessee -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns
Description: "All for the Regiment traces how the amateur soldiers who formed the Army of the Ohio bridged widely varying backgrounds to organize themselves into individual regiments of remarkable strength and cohesion. Successive commanders Robert Anderson, William T. Sherman, and Don Carlos Buell all failed to integrate those regiments into an effective organization, however.

The result was a decentralized and elastic army that was easily disrupted and difficult to command - but also nearly impossible to destroy in combat.".

"Exploring the army's behavior at minor engagements such as Rowlett's Station and Logan's Cross Roads, as well as major battles such as Shiloh and Perryville, Prokopowicz shows how its regiment-oriented culture prevented the army from experiencing decisive results - either complete victory or catastrophic defeat - on the battlefield. Regimental solidarity was at once the Army of the Ohio's greatest strength, he argues, and its most dangerous vulnerability.".

"More than a traditional campaign narrative, the book uses the Army of the Ohio's example to advance an innovative argument regarding battlefield performance in the Civil War. How an army fared in battle was primarily determined not by the skill of its commander or the technological sophistication of its weapons, Prokopowicz says, but by the way in which it was recruited and organized."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-254) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: CHAPTER ONE; title: Genesis of an Army,; title: May to November I861 7; title: CHAPTER TWO; title: From Civilians into Soldiers,; title: November I86I toJanuary 1862 35; title: CHAPTER THREE; title: The First Campaign; title: Logan s Cross Roads, January 1862 62; title: CHAPTER FOUR; title: The Army in Action; title: The Shiloh Campaign,January to April 1862 83; title: CHAPTER FIVE; title: Promise Unfulfilled; title: The Corinth and Chattanooga; title: Campaigns, May toJuly 1862 113; title: CHAPTER SIX; title: The Invasion of Kentucky,; title: August to September 1862 136; title: CHAPTER SEVEN; title: Crisis of Leadership; title: The Perryville Campaign, October 1862 I59; title: Epilogue I85 Bibliography 243; title: Notes I9I Index 255.