With a Sword in One Hand and Jomini in the Other
The Problem of Military Thought in the Civil War North
By Carol Reardon
192 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, notes, bibl., index
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Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-8078-3560-9
Published: May 2012 -
Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4696-4230-7
Published: February 2018 -
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Published: May 2012 -
E-book PDF ISBN: 979-8-8908-4014-1
Published: May 2012
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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.
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Carol Reardon is George Winfree Professor of American History Emerita at Pennsylvania State University and author of Pickett’s Charge in History and Memory.
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