Themes of the American Civil War

Notes
1.
Brian Holden Reid, The American Civil War and the Wars of the Industrial Revolution (London,
1999), pp. Dixon Wecter, The Heroin America, 2nd. edn. (1941, repr. New York, 1972), pp. 199–203,
206; John William Ward, Andrew Jackson Symbol for an Age (New York, 1953), pp. Marcus Cunliffe, Soldiers and Civilians The Martial Spirit in America, 1775–1865, rd. edn.
(1968, repr. London, 1993), pp. 307–12; Brian Holden Reid, The Origins of the American Civil
War (London, 1996), pp. Joseph G. Dawson III, Zealous for Annexation Volunteer Soldiering, Military Government,
and the Service of Colonel Alexander W. Doniphan in the Mexican–American War in Brian
Holden Reid, ed, Military Power Land Warfare in Theory and Practice (London, pp. J. F. C. Fuller, The Generalship of Ulysses S. Grant, 2nd. edn. (1956, repr. New York, 1992), p. Russell F. Weigley, Quartermaster General of the Union Army A Biography of MC. Meigs (New
York, 1959), pp. 215–17; also see Holden Reid, Origins, pp. Timothy D. Jordan, Winfield Scott The Quest for Military Glory (Lawrence, KS, 1998), pp. 27,
208, 282; 65, 77, 183; 39, 157–9, 1917, 207; 29, 174–5; Ibid, pp. 47, 56, 113, Ibid, pp. 103, 187, McClellan to Scott, April 27, 1861, with an annotation by Scott, May 2, 1861, War of the
Rebellion: The Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies (Washington, 1897), Series 1, Vol. 51, Part 1, pp. T. Harry Williams, P. GT. Beauregard Napoleon in Gray (1955, repr. Baton Rouge, LA, pp. William Howard Russell, My Diary North and South, ed. Eugene H. Berwanger (New York, p. EA. Hitchcock, Fifty Years in Camp and Field, ed. WA. Croffat (New York, 1909), p. Lloyd Lewis, Sherman: Fighting Prophet (New York, 1929), p. 142; John F. Manszalek,
Sherman: A Soldier’s Passion for Order (New York, 1993), pp. T. Harry Williams, Lincoln and his Generals (New York, 1952), pp. 67–72; Stephen W. Sears,
George B. McClellan The Young Napoleon (New York, 1988), pp. 95, 99.
15.
Lincoln and the Civil War in the Diaries and Letters of John Hay, ed. Tyler Dennett (1939, repr.
New York, 1988), p. 33. Lincoln then urged him to enlarge the sphere of his thoughts and feel the weight of the occasion.”
16.
Williams, Lincoln and his Generals, pp. 56–63; Montgomery C. Meigs, On the Conduct of the Civil War American Historical Review 26 (1921), pp. 292–3; Sears, McClellan, pp. McClellan to Stanton, February 3, 1862, The Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan Selected
Correspondence, 1860–1865, ed. Stephen W. Sears (New York, 1989), pp. 163–9; Michael CC. Adams, Fighting for Defeat Union Military Failure in the East, 1861–1865 (1978, repr.
Lincoln, NE, and London, 1992), pp. 92–103, Brian Holden Reid, Rationality and Irrationality in Union Strategy, April March 1862,”
War in History 1, 1 (March 1994), pp. Steven E. Woodworth, Davis and Lee at War (Lawrence, KS, 1995), pp. 12, 129, 132–6, Sears, Young Napoleon, pp. 217–22, 303, 310, 314, 320; Williams, Lincoln and his Generals,
pp. 165–9; Stephen E. Ambrose, Halleck: Lincoln’s Chief of Staff (1962, repr. Baton Rouge, LA, pp. On the mutiny against Bragg see Thomas L. Connelly, Autumn of Glory The Army of Tennessee,
1862–1865 (Baton Rouge, LA, 1971), pp. 235–54, fora detailed account, and Steven E.
Woodworth, Six Armies in Tennessee (Lincoln, NE, 1998), pp. 139–40, fora shorter one.
22.
Douglas Southall Freeman, R. E. Lee A Biography (New York, 1934–35) II, pp. Quoted in Frank E. Vandiver, Mighty Stonewall (1957, repr. College Station, TX, 1988), pp. 199–200, 290.
24.
Woodworth, Davis and Lee at War, p. 267; Judith Lee Hallock, Braxton Bragg and Confederate
Defeat (Tuscaloosa, AL, 1991) II, pp. The most extreme statement of this view is Thomas L. Connelly, Robert E. Lee and the
Western Confederacy A Criticism of Lee’s Strategic Ability Civil War History 15 (1969), pp. 116–32.
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Lee to Davis, 15 June 1864 (No. 781), in Clifford Dowdey and Louis H. Manarin, eds, The
Wartime Papers of RE. Lee (New York, 1961), p. 783; Craig L. Symonds, Joseph E. Johnston
(New York, 1992), pp. 198–201; Williams, Beauregard, p. Philip Howes, The Catalytic Wars A Study of the Development of War, 1860–1870 (London,
1998), p. Bruce Catton, Grant Moves South (Boston, MA, 1960), pp. Thomas L. Connelly, Army of the Heartland The Army of Tennessee, 1861–1862 (1967, repr.
Baton Rouge, LA, 1986), pp. 160–1, 164–6; US. Grant, Personal Memoirs (London, 1886) I,
pp. 342–3, 350–1; Kenneth P. Williams, Lincoln Finds a General (New York, 1952) III, pp, 356, 360, 369, 383, 387, 390–1; Edward Hagerman, From Jomini to Dennis Hart
Mahan: The Evolution of Trench Warfare and the American Civil War Civil War History,
13 (1967), p. Grant, Personal Memoirs I, p. Freeman Cleaves, Rock of Chickamauga: The Life of General George H. Thomas (Norman, OK,
and London, 1948), p. Ibid, pp. 112–16; Williams, Lincoln Finds a General IV, pp. Holden Reid, American Civil War and the Wars of the Industrial Revolution, pp. Adam Badeau, Military History of US. Grant (New York, 1881) I, pp. 95–6, Horace Porter, Campaigning with Grant (New York, 1897), pp. 13–16, Grady McWhiney, Braxton Bragg and Confederate Defeat (1969, repr. Tuscaloosa, AL, pp. 229, 342; Stephen W. Sears, Chancellorsville (Boston, MA, 1996), pp. Porter, Campaigning with Grant, pp. 8, 37–8, Brian Holden Reid, The Commander and his Chief of Staff Ulysses S. Grant and John A.
Rawlins,” in GD. Sheffield, ed, Leadership and Command The Anglo-American Experience
since 1861 (London, 1997), pp. On Lee’s calculated appearances at the front see NA. Trudeau, A mere question of time’:
Robert E. Lee, from the Wilderness to Appomattox Court House in Gary Gallagher, ed,
Lee: The Soldier (Lincoln, NE, and London, 1996), p. Edwin B. Coddington, The Gettysburg Campaign (New York, 1968), pp. 42–4, 94–102, 130–3,
214–17, 221, See Bruce Catton, Grant takes Command (Boston, MA, 1968), p. 139, for Lincoln’s injunction to Stanton to leave him Grant alone to do as he pleases.”
42.
Williams, Lincoln and his Generals, p. 291; Herman Hattaway and Archer Jones, How the North
Won (Urbana and Chicago, IL, 1983), p. Edward Hagerman, The American Civil War and the Origins of Modern Warfare Ideas,
Organization, and Field Command (Bloomington, IN, 1988), pp. 34–5, Frank E. Vandiver, Rebel Brass The Confederate Command System (Baton Rouge, LA, pp. Cleaves, Thomas, pp. Command and Leadership
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