With a Sword in One Hand and Jomini in the Other
The Problem of Military Thought in the Civil War North
Carol Reardon
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 05/2012
Pages: 192
Subject: History
| University of North Carolina
Print ISBN: 9.78E+12
eBook ISBN: 9780807882573
DESCRIPTION
Reardon examines the great profusion of new or newly translated military texts of the Civil War years intended to fill that intellectual void and draws as well on the views of the soldiers and civilians who turned to them in the search for a winning strategy. In examining how debates over principles of military thought entered into the question of qualifications of officers entrusted to command the armies of Northern citizen soldiers, she explores the limitations of nineteenth-century military thought in dealing with the human elements of combat.