Preparing for Disunion: West Point Commandants and the Training of Civil War Leaders - Softcover

Mesch, Allen H.

 
9781476674254: Preparing for Disunion: West Point Commandants and the Training of Civil War Leaders
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1476674256 ISBN 13: 9781476674254
Verlag: McFarland, 2018

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Between 1817 and 1864, sixteen officers were assigned as Commandants of Cadets at the U.S. Military Academy. They played an important role in training the officers who would serve on both sides of the Civil War. Historians criticize the program as antiquated for its time: A course in Napoleonic strategy and tactics that did not account for rifled weapons or the particularities of terrain. Yet these commandants made changes to the program, developed new textbooks and instructed cadets who became field generals. The biographies of the commandants are presented along with their contributions to the Academy, notable graduates and other military service.

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Allen H. Mesch is an author, educator, and historian from Plano, Texas. He taught at the University of Texas at Dallas, Southern Methodist University, and Texas Woman's University.

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Verlag
McFarland
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1476674256
ISBN 13 
9781476674254
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
292
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