This thesis is a chronological analysis of Longstreet during the thirteen major campaigns in which he participated: First Manassas, Williamsburg, Seven Pines, the Seven Days, Second Manassas, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Suffolk, Gettysburg,...
This paper explores the impact that an army's structure has on its ability to process information and achieve victory on the battlefield. It discusses the following questions. What is information and how is it related to organizations? How does...
The purpose of this monograph is to identify skills and capabilities required by commanders to excel at the operational level of war and in the practice of operational art. The author evaluated the performance of Confederate Major General Daniel...
While hundreds of volumes exist on the Gettysburg Campaign, most examine the battle’s tactical framework and focus on the activities of brigades and regiments. However, of more interest to the serving military professional may be an analysis of...
Thesis Statement: The Confederate Army effectively employed maneuver, economy of force, and surprise at the Second Battle of Bull Run.
Discussion:The Confederate Army fielded its best officers at the Second Battle of Bull Run. These officers, led...
In September 1863 the Confederate States of America reinforced their Western Theater of Operations by conducting a 950 mile, inter-theater rail movement of two infantry divisions. Within 24 hours of their arrival, almost one-half of these troops...
This paper examines one aspect of warfare at the operational level, the defense, and attempts to identify how the elements of planning, preparation, and execution, previously applied in the conduct of the tactically-oriented Active Defense, must be...
With the outbreak of the Civil War, Hood resigned his commission in the U.S. Army and entered the Confederate Army as a resident of Texas. Originally appointed a first lieutenant he served on the Virginia peninsula in 1861 and received rapid...
This monograph analyzes the Confederate Maryland campaign of 1862 in regard to several key concepts of military theory. As an operation involving extended effort and multiple battles, the campaign serves as a case study reinforcing the utility of...
This thesis is a historical analysis and assessment of Major General John Bell Hood's Division during the Battle of Chickamauga. In early July 1863, the Confederate Army suffered two major defeats, Vicksburg and Gettysburg, where the division...
This study is an analysis of the competing initiative displayed between Generals Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee during Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign in Virginia. It begins with Lincoln's appointing Grant as Lieutenant General and General in...
The Confederacy's two largest field forces, the Army of Northern Virginia and the Army of Tennessee compiled quite dissimilar battlefield reputations. The former, more often victorious in battle, established a firm internal structure earlier in the...
The concept of winning wars when outnumbered is critical to United States doctrine in the 1980s and 1990s. As the product of domestic and allied force structuring, our most dangerous enemy has developed a clear cut superiority in mass. That...
The purpose of this book is to investigate the reactions of a belligerent nation which finds itself threatened with exhaustion as a result of a war of long duration, and to demonstrate the methods of war available to a nation possessing great...
Robert E. Lee, in his first campaign as the new commander of the Army of Northern Virginia, stopped the Union offensive against Richmond in a series of engagements known as the Seven Days. Although eventually successful, Confederate operations were...
Greaves, Bryan; Snyder, Kenneth; Lysight, Anthony; Wilson, Edward
Thesis Statement: During the American Civil War's May 1864 Wilderness Campaign, the terrain decisively negated any advantages in troop strength, training, and leadership held by either opposing force, and resulted in neither side gaining...
Greaves, Bryan; Snyder, Kenneth; Lysight, Anthony; Wilson, Edward
Thesis Statement: During the American Civil War's May 1864 Wilderness Campaign, the terrain decisively negated any advantages in troop strength, training, and leadership held by either opposing force, and resulted in neither side gaining...
Many historians give William Sherman total credit for the success of the Atlanta Campaign, when in fact it was the success of the Federal team as an institution. Conversely, many blame Joseph Johnston for the Confederate loss in that campaign,...