Grand Design Strategy and the U. S. Civil War

Name: Grand Design Strategy and the U. S. Civil War
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ISBN: 9780199931149

ISBN-10: 0199931143

ISBN-13: 9780199931149

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Authors: Donald Stoker

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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.InThe 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 their political goals and worked with their generals to craft the military means to achieve them--or…

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List price: $21.99
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/1/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 512
Size: 6.22" wide x 9.21" long x 1.32" tall
Weight: 1.540



Preface



'We only want to be left alone.' - The Confederacy's Political Objective and the Union's Rebuttal



Making War a Little at a Time



Mr. Lincoln Goes to War



The Border States: Policy, Strategy, and Civil-Military Relations



King Cotton's Tarnished Crown: Confederate Economic and Diplomatic Strategies



McClellan on Top: The Evolution of Union Strategy, July 1861 - 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



The Summer of 1862 in the West



To Free Maryland and Tennessee!



The Union Rebuffed: The Autumn of 1862



The Emancipation Proclamation - Strategy, Policy, and Escalation



1863: A New Year and New Hopes



Vicksburg and Exhaustion



The Cruel Summer: 1863 - The Gettysburg Campaign



From Vicksburg, to Chickamauga, to the Rappahannock



Indecision and the West



Decision and Desperation, 1864



The Full Fury of Modern War - Exhaustion and Attrition



War Termination


Some Conclusions


Acknowledgments


Notes


Index