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Summary:

"Challenges of Command concentrates on senior military leadership and the generals who exercised it. The first volume of two focuses on "Civil War Generals and Generalship." Volume II covers "Civil War Strategy, Operations, and Organization." Each chapter is free-standing. Some are grounded in extensive original research, and others bring readily available information together in new formulations and suggest new ways to consider it. Still others offer my own analyses and interpretations of oft-explored subjects, such as the generalship of U.S. Grant and Robert E. Lee and Confederate generalship in the Gettysburg Campaign; all grounded in sixty-three years of studying and thinking about the Civil War."--Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: pt. I GRANT AND LEE
• ch. 1 Generalship of Ulysses S. Grant and the American Civil War
• ch. 2 Generalship of Robert E. Lee and the Civil War in the East
• ch. 3 Success through a Succession of Setbacks: Ulysses S. Grant and the Virginia Campaign of 1864-1865
• ch. 4 "Winged Victory": Ulysses S. Grant and the Search for Success in the Siege of Petersburg
• ch. 5 Generalship of Grant and Lee at Petersburg
• pt. II GENERALS
• ch. 6 American Cincinnatus: Lincoln's Civilian Corps Commanders
• ch. 7 Mac's Main Men: Federal Wing and Corps Commanders in the Antietam Campaign
• ch. 8 Meade's Main Men: Federal Wing and Corps Commanders in the Gettysburg Campaign
• ch. 9 Grant's Main Men: Senior Federal Commanders in the Fifth Offensive at Petersburg
• ch. 10 Founding Fathers: Renowned Revolutionary War Relatives of Significant Civil War Soldiers and Statesmen.

Author/Creator:

Sommers, Richard J. , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Challenges of command in the Civil War: generalship, leadership, and strategy at Gettysburg, Petersburg, and beyond [by Sommers, R.J.]

Subjects:

United States — History — Civil War, 1861-1865 — Campaigns

Command of troops — History — 19th century — Case studies

Generals — United States — History — 19th century

Generals — Confederate States of America

Military art and science — United States — History — 19th century — Case studies

General Notes:

Description based on: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 21, 2018).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Volume 1. Generals and generalship

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Call Numbers:

E470 .S69 2018eb

ISBNs:

9781611214338 (electronic bk.)
1611214335 (electronic bk.)
9781611214321 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1041108832

Other Control Numbers:

1834211 (source: EbpS)
[Unknown Type]: ybp15552039