Download or read book The Ever Changing Leaders and Organization of the Army of the Potomac written by George S. Maharay and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the changes in leadership and organization for the Army of the Potomac. The author explores the reasons for the changes and shows them in 23 pictorial organization charts.
Download or read book Baldy written by George S. Maharay and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Major General William F. (Baldy) Smith was a genuine, but largely unsung hero of the Civil War. After he devised and carried out the plan that saved the Army of the Cumberland at Chattanooga, General Grant said," He [Smith] is possessed of one of the clearest military minds in the army; is very practical and industrious." Grant advocated making General Smith commander of the Army of the Potomac, replacing General Meade. For a variety of reasons, that didn't happen. General Smith was then assigned to command the Eighteenth Corps of the Army of the James under Major General Benjamin F. Butler, the man Lincoln called "The Damnedest Scoundrel". Grant expected Smith, "to keep him [Butler] straight in military matters". It was an impossible task. Butler was powerful politically, and in a presidential year, could not be controlled. Eventually, either Butler or Smith had to go, and Smith lost out. This book is the story about the life of Major General Baldy Smith, Vermont hero.
Download or read book The Army of the Potomac written by François-Ferdinand-Philippe- Joinville and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a detailed and authoritative account of the Union Army's crucial campaign in the American Civil War. The authors provide a thorough analysis of the organization of the Army of the Potomac, as well as the leadership of its commander, George B. McClellan. Drawing upon a wealth of primary sources, including diaries and letters from soldiers and officers, this book offers a fascinating and illuminating perspective on one of the most important conflicts in American history. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book The Army of the Potomac from 1861 to 1863 written by Samuel Livingston French and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Army of the Potomac written by THE PRINCE DE JOINVILLE and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Army of the Potomac written by François-Ferdinand-Philippe-Louis-Marie d'Orléans prince de Joinville and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Army of the Potomac Behind the Scenes written by Alfred Lewis Castleman and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Four Years in the Army of the Potomac written by Evan Rowland Jones and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report on the Organization and Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac written by George Brinton McClellan and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Army of the Potomac From 1861 to 1863 written by Samuel Livingston French and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book The Army of the Potomac Its Organization Its Commander and Its Campaign Translated with Notes by W H Hulbert Copyright Edition written by and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac written by William Swinton and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of the Army of the Potomac written by James Henry Stine and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 968 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Seizing Destiny written by Albert Z. Conner and published by Savas Beatie. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How fighting Joe Hooker turned things around during a low point in the Civil War: “Exceptionally well-written . . . the result of painstaking research.” —Brig. Gen. John W. Mountcastle, USA (ret.), former chief of military history, US Army Depression. Desertion. Disease. The Army of the Potomac faced a trio of unrelenting enemies during the winter of 1863. Following the catastrophic defeat at the battle of Fredericksburg, the army settled into winter quarters—and despair settled into the army. Morale sank to its lowest level while desertions reached an all-time high. Illness packed the hospitals. Political intrigues, careerist schemes, and harsh winter weather demoralized everyone. Even the army’s livestock suffered, with more than 1,000 horses and mules dying every week. Then Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker, a pugnacious tactician aptly nicknamed “Fighting Joe,” took command of the army. And a remarkable thing happened: A man known for his hardscrabble battlefield tenacity showed an amazing brilliance for organization and leadership. With Chief of Staff Dan Butterfield working alongside him, Hooker rebuilt the army from the bottom up. In addition to instituting logistical, ordnance, and administrative reforms, he insisted on proper troop care, rigorous inspections, and battle drills. Hooker doled out promotions and furloughs by merit, conducted large-scale raids, streamlined the army’s command and control, and fielded a new cavalry corps and military intelligence organization. Hooker’s war on poor discipline and harsh conditions revitalized a dying army. During this ninety-three-day resurgence, the Army of the Potomac reversed its fortunes and set itself on the path to ultimate victory. Hooker’s achievement represents nothing less than the greatest non-battle turning point since Valley Forge in the American Revolution—through it has long gone unnoticed or underappreciated by modern historians. Based on soldiers’ records, diaries, and letters, from the lowest private to the highest general, this is the full story of how these citizen-soldiers overcame adversity, seized their destiny, and saved the nation.
Download or read book Report on the Organization and Campaigns written by George B. McClellan and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-25 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Report on the Organization and Campaigns: Of the Army of the Potomac; To Which Is Added an Account of the Campaign in Western Virginia, With Plans of Battle-Fields The attack upon Fort Sumter on the 12th of April, 1861, took the Northern people by surprise, and found them entirely unprepared to carry on a serious contest. Our people were born and educated amidst the blessings of peace and material prosperity; they were in the habit of yielding obedience to the laws of the country and the will of the majority as expressed in the elections, and had become accustomed to see great political excitement and animosity calmly subside through the deference of the minority to the decision of the majority. Thus to the last moment it was difficult to realize that a great civil war was imminent; and men clung fondly to the hope that the good sense of both sections would in the eleventh hour find some honorable solution to the difficulty, as had so often been the case before. It is probable that neither section fully realized the power and violence of the passions evoked, and that each flattered itself with the delusive hope that the other would yield something, rather than risk the inevitable and terrible consequences of an appeal to arms. Each underrated the strength, resources and courage of the other. These mutual misunderstandings, ably used by a comparatively small number of ambitious and unscrupulous men, were at their height when the insult offered the national flag in the harbor of Charleston aroused both parties to something like a true sense of their condition. The South were warned that they were irrevocably committed to make good their threats, and to establish by force their vaunted right of secession. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Army of the Potomac written by William Henry Hurlbert and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-11 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Army of the Potomac: Its Organization, Its Commander, and Its Campaign The article of which the following pages are a translation appeared in the number of the Revue iles Deux Mondes for October 15th, 1862. It is there entitled "Carapagne de l'Armee du Potomac, Mars-Jnillet, 1862," and bears the signature of "A. Trog-iion." It is well understood in Paris that this signature is the nom de plume of one of the princes of .the House of Orleans, and from the internal evidence afforded by the paper itself I have been led to believe that it was probably written by the Prince de JoiuriUe, who accompanied his nephews, the Comte de Paris and the Due de Chartres, throughout the period of their service in the Array of the Union, and that it was composed upon the data furnished by the journals of one or both of those princes, collated with his own observations and recollections. I have accordingly accepted the well-authenticated rumor which ascribes its authorship to him. I have also taken the liberty of affixing to the translation a title which more fully describes the scope aud nature of the paper. As the reader will perceive, it is a critical and historical sketch of the rise, progress, character and fortunes of the army which was assembled at Washington for the invasion of Virginia, from the time of its first organization in 1861, down to the end of the campaign before Richmond in 1862. It is written with the freedom and force of an accomplished military man, anxious to do justice to the merits and to point out the defects of an army which he has studied in the camp and in the field: master of his subject; temperate in tone, and in stylo equally free from the carelessness of the amateur, and the pedantry of the professional soldier. Recent events have given a peculiar importance to the facts here presented, and it will not be easy for any candid person to read these pages without feeling that the causes of the military misfortunes which will make the year 1802 so painfully remarkable in our history demand the fullest aud most searching investigation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Gettysburg and Leadership written by James Osterhaus and published by Covenant Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2018-04-26 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gettysburg is a defining moment in our history when two great armies were on a collision course with each other and with history. The Civil War is arguably the pivotal moment in American history. This great battle was crafted by leaders who would be the stuff of legend, even after 150 years. The struggle provides an excellent moment to study leadership in all of its complexity. The American code and culture cannot be understood without grasping the centrality of the Civil War and Abraham Lincoln. We can look at battlefields and talk of tactics and strategy. We can talk about the intriguing leaders who led thousands of civilians-turned soldiers into a maelstrom that no one now can even imagine (Gettysburg incurred ten times the number of causalities as D-Day). However, the Civil War is much more than this. The Civil War defined who we are as a people (this country, made up of separate states, was forged into a single nation). What emerged in the struggle were some of the most prominent and revered leaders this country and the world has ever seen. Next to George Washington, Abraham Lincoln is the greatest leader in American history. At the little hamlet in south central Pennsylvania-the greatest leader and the greatest battle to be fought on American soil-where the battle's fulcrum lies, that convergence would be put into words. These were not just any words. They constituted the most elegant explanation ever placed before the American people regarding the nature and destiny of our nation.
