The grand design : strategy and the U.S. Civil War

The grand design : strategy and the U.S. Civil War / Donald Stoker.

Compares the military strategies of Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln, suggesting that the Union could have won much earlier had they followed the grand plan of George B. McClellan.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stoker, Donald J.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Subjects:
1800-1899
Strategy > History > 19th century.
HISTORY.
Military campaigns
Military policy
Strategy
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Campaigns.
United States > Military policy.
Confederate States of America > Military policy.
United States
United States > Confederate States of America
Electronic books.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Policy and war
  • The sinews of war
  • Mr. Lincoln goes to war
  • The border states: policy, strategy, and civil-military relations
  • McClellan on top: Union strategy, July 1861-October 1861
  • Union strategy: November 1861 to March 1862
  • The foundations of naval strategy
  • The war in the West: breaking the cordon
  • A new year and a new strategy
  • War in Virginia
  • Confusion in the West: the summer of 1862
  • The tyranny of time
  • Facing the arithmetic: escalation and destruction
  • The enormous proportions of war
  • Vicksburg and exhaustion
  • The cruel summer of 1863: the Gettysburg campaign
  • The autumn of 1863: playing the deep game
  • The siren song of Tennessee: the winter of 1863-64
  • Decision and desperation: 1864
  • The full fury of modern war
  • War termination
  • Conclusion: in war's shadow.

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