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03227aam a2200409 i 4500 001 E8FC614A3F1711E98434DF6697128E48 003 SILO 005 20190305011820 008 180810s2018 lau b s001 0 eng c 010 $a 2018016030 020 $a 0807169773 020 $a 9780807169773 035 $a (OCoLC)1050140569 040 $a LBSOR/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d BDX $d OCLCF $d YDX $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a E468.5 U76 2018 245 00 $a Upon the fields of battle : $b essays on the military history of America's Civil War / $c edited by Andrew S. Bledsoe and Andrew F. Lang ; foreword by Gary W. Gallagher. 264 1 $a Baton Rouge : $b Louisiana State University Press, $c [2018] 300 $a xiii, 304 pages ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Conflicting worlds 520 $a "The essays approach the period through the expansive lens of military history, grounded in both traditional and pioneering methodologies. By offering fresh areas of inquiry and demonstrating the potential of military history to provide invaluable insights, the collection seeks to realign military scholarship on the American Civil War with other scholarly avenues of inquiry"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Military history and the American Civil War / Andrew S. Bledsoe and Andrew F. Lang -- Revitalizing traditional military history in the current age of Civil War studies / Earl J. Hess -- "I am completely checked by the weather" : George B. McClellan, weather, and the Peninsula Campaign / Kenneth W. Noe -- "Your golden opportunity is gone" : George Gordon Meade, the expectations of decisive battle, and the road to Williamsport / Jennifer M. Murray -- "The farce was complete" : Braxton Bragg, field orders, and the language of command at McLemore's Cove / Andrew S. Bledsoe -- The looting and bombardment of Fredericksburg : "vile spirits" or war transformed? / John J. Hennessy -- Guerrilla warfare as social stimulus / Brian D. McKnight -- The limits of American exceptionalism : military occupation, emancipation, and the preservation of union / Andrew F. Lang -- "They met their fate without a sigh" : an analysis of Confederate military executions / Kevin M. Levin -- McClellan's men : Union Army Democrats in 1864 / Keith Altavilla -- The hour that lasted fifty years : the 107th Ohio and the human longitude of Gettysburg / Brian Matthew Jordan -- "His death may have lost the South her independence" : Albert Sidney Johnston and Civil War memory / Robert L. Glaze. 611 27 $a American Civil War (1861-1865) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01351658 651 0 $a United States $x History $y Civil War, 1861-1865. 651 0 $a United States $x Historiography. $y Civil War, 1861-1865 $x Historiography. 648 7 $a 1861-1865 $2 fast 700 1 $a Bledsoe, Andrew S., $d 1974- $e editor. 700 1 $a Lang, Andrew F., $d 1982- $e editor. 700 1 $a Gallagher, Gary W., $e writer of foreword. 830 0 $a Conflicting worlds. 941 $a 2 952 $l USUX851 $d 20231004011958.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191213012155.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=E8FC614A3F1711E98434DF6697128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search