American Civil War For Dummies. Keith D. Dickson
Читать онлайн книгу.2: Making War Chapter 4: Civil War Armies: Structure and Organization Understanding the Basics of War Creating a Strategy: Three Basic Questions Uncovering the Principles of War Developing Campaigns: The Art of War Putting It All Together: Strategy to Campaigns to Battles Looking at the Civil War Army Organization Building a Basic Civil War Army Structure: The Regiment Comparing the Science versus the Art of War Chapter 5: Union and Confederate Strategy Comparing Northern and Southern Resources Wartime Strategy: Union and Confederate Geography and Strategy: Theaters of War Civil War Strategy in Retrospect Chapter 6: Organizing and Training the Armies Making Civilians into Soldiers Qualifications of Union and Confederate Officers Chapter 7: Significant Weapons of the Civil War The Weapons You Need to Fight The Rifled Musket and Tactics The Really Big Guns: Civil War Artillery Cavalry Weapons
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Part 3: Opening Moves, 1861–1862
Chapter 8: Starting the War: Bull Run (First Manassas), July 1861
The First Rumblings: “On to Richmond!”
Marching into Battle (Sort Of)
Organizing the Armies: Disposition of Forces on the Battlefield
Opening Moves: Key Decisions and Events
Advancing to Victory: The Outcome
Analyzing the Battle
Heroes and Goats
Chapter 9: Trouble West of the Mississippi and the Road to Shiloh, August 1861–April 1862
Focusing on the Early Battlegrounds of Missouri and Arkansas
Dictating a Strategy in the Western Theater
Struggling with Rank: Union Command
The Importance of Kentucky
Attacking the Forts: Grant Teams with the Navy
The Shiloh Campaign
The Fighting Begins: The Battle of Shiloh
Aftermath of the Battle
Heroes and Goats
Chapter 10: Union Navy Victories and Union Army Defeats, March–July 1862
Bringing in a New Commander: George B. McClellan
Taking a Gamble: The Blockade
Patrolling the Coast: Union Naval Victories
Discovering the Political Price of Failure and Inaction
The Peninsula: A New Campaign
Writing a New Chapter in Naval Warfare: The Ironclad
Getting Fooled at Yorktown
Battle of Wills: The Presidents versus the Generals
McClellan Makes a Mistake before Richmond
Chapter 11: Stonewall Jackson’s Valley Campaign, March–June 1862
Creating a Hero: Stonewall Jackson
Stonewall’s Valley: The Shenandoah
The Valley Campaign: An Appreciation
Chapter 12: The Seven Days of Robert E. Lee, June–July 1862
The Confederacy in Crisis: Seven Pines
Results of the Battle: McClellan Falters
Taking Command: The “King of Spades”
The Significance of the Campaign
Heroes and Goats
Chapter 13: Second Bull Run (Manassas), August 1862
Reshuffling the Union Command Structure
Giving Lee an Opportunity: “Old Brains” Miscalculates
The Aftermath of the Battle
Heroes and Goats
Chapter 14: The Bloodiest Day: Antietam (Sharpsburg), September 1862
Winning the War Now: The Confederate Strategic Situation
Waiting for a Victory: The Union Strategic Situation
The Antietam Campaign
Jackson’s