Reflections of a Civil War historian essays on leadership, society, and the art of war

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ISBN: 0826264425 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9780826264428 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0826214878 (alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780826214874 (alk. paper)
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (xv, 254 p.)
Publisher: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2004.

General Note:	Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Civil War leadership -- Stephen d. Lee and the guns at Second Manassas -- P.G.T. Beauregard -- Morgan's Raid : the war strikes home -- Soldier of conscience, George H. Thomas : a Virginian fights for the Union -- Lincoln's presidential example in dealing with the military -- The war inside the church -- State rights and local defense : the crux of Frank L. Owsley's state-rights thesis reexamined -- "We shall cease to be friends" -- Balloons and the American military : Civil War to World War I -- The War Board, the basis of the United States' first general staff -- The Civil War armies : creation, mobilization, and development -- The evolution of tactics in the Civil War -- Epilogue : on remembering and reliving history.
Restrictions on Access Note:	Restrictions unspecified
Reproduction Note:	Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
System Details Note:	Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
Action Note:	digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.