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Author |
: Timothy B Smith |
Publisher |
: SIU Press |
Total Pages |
: 273 |
Release |
: 2018-06-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780809336678 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0809336677 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (78 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Decision Was Always My Own by : Timothy B Smith
The Vicksburg Campaign, argues Timothy B. Smith, is the showcase of Ulysses S. Grant’s military genius. From October 1862 to July 1863, for nearly nine months, Grant tried repeatedly to capture the Confederate river city. He maneuvered and adapted numerous times, reacting to events and enemy movements with great skill and finesse as the lengthy campaign played out on a huge chessboard, dwarfing operations in the east. Grant’s final, daring move allowed him to land an army in Mississippi and fight his way to the gates of Vicksburg. He captured the Confederate garrison and city on July 4, 1863, opening the Mississippi River for the Union. Showing how and why Grant became such a successful general, Smith presents a fast-paced reexamination of the commander and the campaign. His fresh analysis of Grant’s decision-making process during the Vicksburg maneuvers, battles, and siege details the course of campaigning on military, political, administrative, and personal levels. The narrative is organized around Grant’s eight key decisions: to begin operations against Vicksburg, to place himself in personal charge of the campaign, to begin active operations around the city, to sweep toward Vicksburg from the south, to march east of Vicksburg and cut the railroad before attacking, to assault Vicksburg twice in an attempt to end the campaign quickly, to lay siege after the assaults had failed, and to parole the surrendered Confederate garrison rather than send the Southern soldiers to prison camps. The successful military campaign also required Grant to master political efforts, including handling Lincoln’s impatience and dealing with the troublesome political general John A. McClernand. Further, he had to juggle administrative work with military decision making. Grant was more than a military genius, however; he was also a husband and a father, and Smith shows how Grant’s family was a part of everything he did. Grant’s nontraditional choices went against the accepted theories of war, supply, and operations as well as against the chief thinkers of the day, such as Henry Halleck, Grant’s superior. Yet Grant pulled off the victory in compelling fashion. In the first in-depth examination in decades, Smith shows how Grant’s decisions created and won the Civil War’s most brilliant, complex, decisive, and lengthy campaign.
Author |
: John Russell Young |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 752 |
Release |
: 1879 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015004158666 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (66 Downloads) |
Synopsis Around the World with General Grant by : John Russell Young
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Total Pages |
: 836 |
Release |
: 1880 |
ISBN-10 |
: ZBZH:ZBZ-00088407 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (07 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Quarterly review by :
Author |
: Joseph Rose |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 816 |
Release |
: 2015-06-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1943177007 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781943177004 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (07 Downloads) |
Synopsis Grant Under Fire by : Joseph Rose
Grant Under Fire comprehensively dissects the military career of Ulysses S. Grant. Rigorously based on a wealth of primary sources--many not cited before--the book resolves scores of controversies, such as his drunken partying with the enemy on flag-of-truce boats out of Cairo, dishonestly blaming Lew Wallace for the march to Shiloh, pretending that he had the ultimate plan to pass Vicksburg all along, stealing the credit for the charge up Missionary Ridge, and leaving wounded men to suffer and die between the lines at Cold Harbor.Despite his sterling reputation as an officer and a gentleman, he suffered the biggest surprise of the American Civil War, committed the worst official act of anti-Semitism on this nation's soil, and came closest of all Union generals to losing Washington. Defenders rank his generalship above Robert E. Lee's, but to do so, they must ignore his simplistic, aggressive strategies that led to a war of attrition and the amateurish tactics of impetuous, frontal assaults, all along the line and against fortified positions.Grant Under Fire overturns the familiar renditions by detailing Grant's corruption at Cairo, his occupation of Paducah under orders, his incapacity in the Mississippi Delta, and the army's non-triumphal exit from the Wilderness, as well as debunking a host of other oft-told tales and myths.
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: United States. Board of Tax Appeals |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 1550 |
Release |
: 1928 |
ISBN-10 |
: UIUC:30112078089858 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (58 Downloads) |
Synopsis Reports of the United States Board of Tax Appeals by : United States. Board of Tax Appeals
Author |
: William Gifford |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 644 |
Release |
: 1880 |
ISBN-10 |
: PRNC:32101076533452 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (52 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Quarterly Review by : William Gifford
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Total Pages |
: 656 |
Release |
: 1880 |
ISBN-10 |
: IND:30000093221384 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (84 Downloads) |
Synopsis The London Quarterly Review by :
Author |
: Carl von Clausewitz |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 388 |
Release |
: 1908 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105025380887 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (87 Downloads) |
Synopsis On War by : Carl von Clausewitz
Author |
: Marjorie Savage |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 355 |
Release |
: 2009-05-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781439166284 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1439166285 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (84 Downloads) |
Synopsis You're On Your Own (But I'm Here If You Need Me) by : Marjorie Savage
Realistic and practical advice for parents of college-age kids. Parents whose kids are away at college have a tough tightrope to walk: they naturally want to stay connected to their children, yet they also need to let go. What's more, kids often send mixed messages: they crave space, but they rely on their parents' advice and assistance. Not surprisingly, it's hard to know when it's appropriate to get involved in your child's life and when it's better to back off. You're On Your Own (But I'm Here If You Need Me) helps parents identify the boundaries between necessary involvement and respect for their child's independence.
Author |
: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 344 |
Release |
: 1908 |
ISBN-10 |
: HARVARD:HNJV19 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Synopsis Poetry and Truth from My Own Life by : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe