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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stoker, Donald J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Strategy--History--19th century.

Strategy.

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

United States.

United States--Military policy.

Confederate States of America--Military policy.

Confederate States of America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (513 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Of the tens of thousands of books exploring virtually every aspect of the Civil War, surprisingly little has been said about what was in fact the determining factor in the outcome of the conflict: differences in Union and Southern strategy. In The Grand Design, Donald Stoker provides a comprehensive and often surprising account of strategy as it evolved between Fort Sumter and Appomattox. Reminding us that strategy is different from tactics (battlefield deployments) and operations (campaigns conducted in pursuit of a strategy), Stoker examines how Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis identified

Contents:

Contents; List of Maps; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Policy and War; 2 The Sinews of War; 3 Mr. Lincoln Goes to War; 4 The Border States: Policy, Strategy, and Civil-Military Relations; 5 McClellan on Top: Union Strategy, July 1861-October 1861; 6 Union Strategy: November 1861-March 1862; 7 The Foundations of Naval Strategy; 8 The War in the West: Breaking the Cordon; 9 A New Year-and a New Strategy; 10 War in Virginia; 11 Confusion in the West: The Summer of 1862; 12 The Tyranny of Time; 13 Facing the Arithmetic: Escalation and Destruction; 14 The Enormous Proportions of War

15 Vicksburg and Exhaustion16 The Cruel Summer of 1863: The Gettysburg Campaign; 17 The Autumn of 1863: Playing the Deep Game; 18 The Siren Song of Tennessee: The Winter of 1863-64; 19 Decision and Desperation, 1864; 20 The Full Fury of Modern War; 21 War Termination; 22 Conclusion: In War's Shadow; Abbreviations; Notes; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

0-19-975256-7

1-282-63925-0

9786612639258

0-19-970660-3

OCLC:

645939979