Conflict and command
By: edited by John T. Hubbell
Series: Civil War history readers
Publisher: Kent State University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Kent, Ohio
Language: eng
Number of pages: 365
ISBN-13: 9781606351185
Subjects: Campaigns; Command of troops; Generals; Military art and science; History
Description: "For more than fifty years the journal Civil War History has presented the best original scholarship in the study of America's greatest struggle. In commemoration of the war's sesquicentennial, the Kent State University Press presents a multivolume series reintroducing the most influential of the more than 500 articles published in the journal."--Back cover.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: "We should grow too fond of it" : why we love the Civil War / Drew Gilpin Faust; title: Was the Civil War a total war? / Mark Neely Jr; title: A "face of battle" needed : an assessment of motives and men in Civil War historiography / Marvin R. Cain; title: The Confederacy's first shot / Grady McWhiney; title: The professionalization of George B. McClellan and early field command / Edward Hagerman; title: Pinkerton and McClellan : who deceived whom? / Edwin C. Fishel; title: McClellan and Halleck at war : the struggle for the Union war effort in the West, November 1861-March 1862 / Ethan S. Rafuse; title: Jefferson Davis's pursuit of ambition : the attractive features of alternative decisions / Richard E. Beringer; title: "The enemy at Richmond" : Joseph E. Johnston and the Confederate government / Richard M. McMurry; title: An old-fashioned general in a modern war? : Robert E. Lee as Confederate general / Gary W. Gallagher; title: Marse Robert and the fevers : a note on the general as strategist and on medical ideas as a factor in Civil War decision making / Richard M. McMurry; title: Everyman's war : a rich and poor man's fight in Lee's army / Joseph T. Glatthaar; title: Another look at Grant's crossing of the James, 1864 / Brian Holden Reid; title: Mars and the reverend Longstreet, or, Attacking and dying in the Civil War / Albert Castel; title: Who whipped whom? : Confederate defeat reexamined / Grady McWhiney.