The American Civil War and the Origins of Modern Warfare: Ideas, Organization, and Field Command.

Abstract

Acknowledgments Introduction Ideas and Education 1. Theory, Doctrine, and the Tactical Maze: From Jomini to Dennis Hart Mahan Early Change and Continuity in the East 2. Tactical and Strategic Reorganization: McCleilan and the Origins of Professionalism 3. More Reorganization: The Army of the Potomac Elan, Tradition, and Change in Confederate Virginia 4. Elan and Organization: Early Field Command in Virginia 5. Intimations of Modern Warfare: Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia Continuity and Change Western Style 6.Manuever and Tactics: The First and Second Lines of Confederate Defense 7. The Emergence of Trench Warfare: The Third Lines of Confederate Defense 8. Trench Warfare and Maneuver Organizational Irony 9. Loss of Legitimacy: The Peculiar Fate of Engineering Organization New Thresholds of Modern Warfare 10. Position and Attrition: From the Wilderness to Richmond 11. Organization, Maneuver, and the Strategy of Exhaustion: To Atlanta and Beyond Notes Works Cited Index Illustrations Follow p. 78