Conflict and Command: Civil War History Readers, Volume 1

Contents

Contents Introduction vii “We should Grow Too Fond of It”: Why We love the Civil War Drew Gilpin Faust 1 Was the Civil War a Total War? Mark E. Neely Jr. 17 a “Face of battle” needed: an assessment of Motives and Men in Civil War Historiography Marvin r. Cain 43 The Confederacy’s First shot Grady Mcwhiney 68 The Professionalization of George b. McClellan and early Civil War Field Command: an Institutional Perspective Edward hagerman 78 Pinkerton and McClellan: Who deceived Whom? Edwin C. Fishel 103 McClellan and Halleck at War: The struggle for the Union War effort in the West, november 1861–March 1862 Ethan s. rafuse 133 Jefferson davis’s Pursuit of ambition: The attractive Features of alternative decisions richard E. Beringer 157 “The enemy at richmond”: Joseph e. Johnston and the Confederate Government richard M. McMurry 192 E v an old-Fashioned General in a Modern War?: robert e. lee as Confederate General Gary w. Gallagher 223 Marse robert and the Fevers: a note on the General as strategist and on Medical Ideas as a Factor in Civil War decision Making richard M. McMurry 255 everyman’s War: a rich and Poor Man’s Fight in lee’s army Joseph T. Glatthaar 266 another look at Grant’s Crossing of the James, 1864 Brian holden reid 284 Mars and the reverend longstreet: or, attacking and dying in the Civil War albert Castel 312 Who Whipped Whom? Confederate defeat reexamined Grady Mcwhiney 325 Contributors 348 Index 349 vi contents ...