American Civil War

Rafuse, Ethan S.

• Contents: Introduction. Part I The Commanders In Chief: Lincoln as military strategist, Herman Hattaway and Archer Jones; Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln as war presidents: nothing succeeds like success, Ludwell H. Johnson; Jefferson Davis and the art of war, Grady McWhiney. Part II The Soldiers: The social and cultural dynamics of soldiering in Hood's Texas Brigade, Charles E. Brooks; Religion and combat motivation in the confederate armies, Samuel J. Watson; Drill, training, and the combat performance of the Civil War soldier: dispelling the myth of the poor soldier, great fighter, Mark A. Weitz. Part III Total War: Conciliation and its failure, 1861-62, Mark Grimsley; Shutting the gates of mercy: the American origins of Total War, 1860-80, Lance Janda; Was the Civil War a Total War?, Mark E. Neely Jr; Abraham Lincoln, John Pope, and the origins of Total War, Daniel E. Sutherland. Part IV Organization and Intelligence: The creation and evolution of the army corps in the American Civil War, Robert M. Epstein; Southern by the Grace of God but Prussian by common sense: James Longstreet and the exercise of command in the U.S. Civil War, Richard L. DiNardo; Neutralizing the valley: the role of military intelligence in the defeat of Jubal Early's army of the valley, 1864-65, William B. Feis; Field transportation and strategic mobility in the Union armies, Edward Hagerman. Part V Commanders: Success, failure, and the guillotine: Don Carlos Buell and the campaign for the Bluegrass State, Stephen D. Engle; 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; 'The doom of slavery': Ulysses S. Grant, war aims, and emancipation, 1861-63, Brooks D. Simpson; McClellan and Halleck at war: the struggle for control of the Union war effort in the West, November 1861-March 1862, Ethan S. Rafuse. Part VI Naval Affairs: The other union ironclad: the USS Galena and the critical