Combined Operations in the Civil War

Reed, Rowena

ISBN 10: 0870211226 / ISBN 13: 9780870211225

Published by Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 1978

About this Item

No price on unclipped jacket & no statement of edition. Bound in light brown linen with gold titles on spine. 468 pages, index, bibliography, photos, maps. Controversial book: author maintains that McClellan's plan would have won the war quickly with less social disruption if he had not been removed from command.

Seller Inventory # 16219

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Combined Operations in the Civil War
• Publisher: Naval Institute Press, Annapolis
• Publication Date: 1978
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0870211226
• ISBN 13: 9780870211225
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • HISTORY::United States::Civil War Period (1850-...
  • HISTORY::Military::United States
  • POLITICAL SCIENCE::Political Process::General
  • History

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Synopsis

In his introduction John D. Milligan considers Reed's provocative thesis that General George B. McClellan's concept of a grand strategy would have ended the bloodshed sooner.

About the Author

Rowena Reed was on the history faculty at Dartmouth College and the author, with Michael Mullins, of A Union Bookshelf: Selected Civil War Bibliography. A professor of history at State University of New York at Buffalo, John D. Milligan is the author of Gunboats down the Mississippi.