Conflict and Command

Civil War History Readers, Volume 1

John T. Hubbell

• Publisher: The Kent State University Press
• Year: 2011
• eBook ISBN: 9781612776309
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: American Civil War History
• Index: History

Fifteen groundbreaking essays from Albert Castel, Gary Gallagher, Mark Neely, Richard M. McMurry, and others

For more than sixty years the journal Civil War History has presented the best original scholarship in the study of America's greatest struggle. The Kent State University Press is pleased to present a multivolume series reintroducing the most influential of the more than 500 articles published in the journal. From military command, strategy, and tactics, to political leadership, abolitionism, the draft, and women's issues, from the war's causes to its aftermath and Reconstruction, Civil War History has published pioneering and provocative analyses of the determining aspects of the Middle Period.

In this inaugural volume historian John T. Hubbell, editor of Civil War History for thirty-five years until 2000, has selected fifteen seminal articles that treat military matters in a variety of contexts, including leadership, strategy, tactics, execution, and outcomes. He begins the volume with a general introduction and introduces each piece with an assessment of its enduring contribution to our understanding.

Those with an interest in the officers and men, logistics and planning, and execution and outcomes of the battles in America's bloodiest conflict will welcome this essential collection.

Index

Aaron, Daniel, 49

Adams, Charles Francis, 226–27, 253

Adams, Daniel W., 342

Adams, Henry A., 71, 72–73

Adams, John, 344

Adams, Michael C. C., 54

Adams, Wirt, 259

Alabama: area of included in C.S. Department of the West, 196, 200; climate in, 258, 262; conscription in, 197; C.S. strategy in, 216; C.S. operations in, 177, 216, 217–18, 220; troops from, 70, 107, 341–42; U.S. operations in, 29, 152

Alexander, Bevin, 234

Alexander, B. S., 85

Alexander the Great, 47

Alexandria, Virginia, 113

Allan, William, 241

Allatoona, Battle of, 343

Allen, E. J., 108. See also Pinkerton, Allan

Ambrose, Stephen E., 45, 153

American Historical Review, 6

American Revolution. See War of [American] Independence

Anaconda Plan, 261, 337–38

Anderson, Archer, 225–26

Anderson, Patton, 211

Antietam, Battle of, 99; C.S. strategy and tactics at, 96, 189, 248, 251; estimates of troops at, 122, 123, 126, 129; fascination of civilizations with, 3–4, 13; U.S. strategy and tactics at, 95–96, 101, 129, 323

Appomattox Court House, Battle of, 235, 245

Arkansas: C.S. strategy in, 178–79, 183–84, 191, 197; politics in, 182; troops from, 181

Arlington, Virginia, 227

Army of the James, 293, 294, 296, 299, 300, 307

Army of Mississippi, 196–97

Army of Northern Virginia, 263, 343; class composition of, 269–83; fragility of, 240, 311; Grant’s strategy toward, 287, 291, 294, 296, 298, 303, 305–6, 308–9; historical appraisals of, 224, 226, 227, 231, 239; Lee and, 239, 244–46, 321; Pennsylvania invasion of, 246–48, 252; size estimates of, 104–26, 131

Army of the Cumberland, 324

Army of the Potomac, 104, 108, 245; at Antietam, 95–100; Burnside replaces McClellan as commander of, 99; Grant’s crossing of the James with, 285, 288, 289–90, 292, 293, 295–99, 303, 306, 308, 309; Lee’s strategy ...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction
• “We Should Grow Too Fond of It”: Why We Love the Civil War
• Was the Civil War a Total War?
• A “Face of Battle” Needed: An Assessment of Motives and Men in Civil War Historiography
• The Confederacy’s First Shot
• The Professionalization of George B. McClellan and Early Civil War Field Command: An Institutional Perspective
• Pinkerton and McClellan: Who Deceived Whom?
• McClellan and Halleck at War: The Struggle for the Union War Effort in the West, November 1861–March 1862
• Jefferson Davis’s Pursuit of Ambition: The Attractive Features of Alternative Decisions
• “The Enemy at Richmond”: Joseph E. Johnston and the Confederate Government
• An Old-Fashioned General in a Modern War?: Robert E. Lee as Confederate General
• Marse Robert and the Fevers: A Note on the General as Strategist and on Medical Ideas as a Factor in Civil War Decision Making
• Everyman’s War: A Rich and Poor Man’s Fight in Lee’s Army
• Another Look at Grant’s Crossing of the James, 1864
• Mars and the Reverend Longstreet: Or, Attacking and Dying in the Civil War
• Who Whipped Whom? Confederate Defeat Reexamined
• Contributors
• Index