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Genre/Form: | History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Wood, W.J. (William J.), 1917- Civil War generalship. Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1997 (OCoLC)606113138 Online version: Wood, W.J. (William J.), 1917- Civil War generalship. Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1997 (OCoLC)608535885 |
Document Type: | Book, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
W J Wood |
ISBN: | 0275950549 9780275950545 |
OCLC Number: | 34958876 |
Description: | xii, 269 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Ch. 1. The American Civil War in Western History -- Ch. 2. Pre-Civil War American Military Thought -- Ch. 3. "Lessons" from Napoleonic Warfare -- Ch. 4. Defining an Art of Command -- Ch. 5. Stonewall Jackson Plans and Conducts His Campaign -- Ch. 6. Nathaniel Banks and the Advance to Cedar Mountain -- Ch. 7. The Battle of Cedar Mountain -- Ch. 8. What Happened at Cedar Mountain? -- Ch. 9. Rosecrans and His Chickamauga Campaign -- Ch. 10. Braxton Bragg, Confederate Strategy, and the Tactical Offensive -- Ch. 11. The Battle of Chickamauga -- Ch. 12. The Two Perspectives of Chickamauga -- Ch. 13. John B. Hood and Certain Differences in Confederate Strategy -- Ch. 14. The "Rock of Chickamauga" Prepares a New Kind of Battle. |
Responsibility: | W.J. Wood. |
Abstract:
This study of Civil War command focuses solely and directly on the problems and methods of operational command, dealing with the tactical and strategical problems that threatened to overwhelm untried Civil War generals at the onset of hostilities.
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