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Author:

Stoker, Donald J.

Title:

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

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2010

Description:

viii, 498 p. : ill., maps, plans ; 25 cm.

Subject:

United States--Campaigns.--Civil War, 1861-1865--Campaigns.
Strategy--History--19th century.
United States--Military policy.
Confederate States of America--Military policy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Policy and war -- The sinews of war -- Mr. Lincoln goes to war -- The border states: policy, strategy, and civil-military relations -- McClellan on top: Union strategy, July 1861-October 1861 -- Union strategy: November 1861 to 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 -- Confusion in the West: the summer of 1862 -- The tyranny of time -- Facing the arithmetic: escalation and destruction -- The enormous proportions of war -- Vicksburg and exhaustion -- The cruel summer of 1863: the Gettysburg campaign -- The autumn of 1863: playing the deep game -- The siren song of Tennessee: the winter of 1863-64 -- Decision and desperation, 1864 -- The full fury of modern war -- War termination -- Conclusion: in war's shadow.

ISBN:

0195373057 (hc.)
9780195373059 (hc.)

LCCN:

2009045427

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

MBPE423 -- Robert W. Barlow Memorial Library (Iowa Falls)

JHPC815 -- Sac City Public Library (Sac City)