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1 online resource (1 audio file (8hr., 59 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
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Read by Stephen Hoye. |
| Summary |
The task for those in charge of professionalizing the military in the first half of the nineteenth century and transforming it from a militia-led army to a highly disciplined standing army was a difficult job. Americans had long supported a tradition of militia and distrusted professional soldiers. However, by the time of the Civil War, the high command positions in the Union army and the nascent army of the Confederacy were filled with graduates of West Point, who had served in the Mexican War and who had been taught in the European military tradition. The sorts of campaigns the armies would wage, the rules of those engagements, the understandings of victory, all were in a sense predetermined by the military training and experience of the professionals called in to organize and lead the opposing sides. In examining the role of the institutional military in the Civil War, Hsieh makes use of manuals, reports, letters housed at West Point, newspapers, diaries, and numerous secondary sources. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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United States -- History, Military -- To 1900.
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United States. Army -- History -- 19th century.
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Military art and science -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Mexican War, 1846-1848 -- Campaigns.
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns.
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Generals -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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United States Military Academy -- Alumni and alumnae -- Biography.
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| Added Author |
Hoye, Stephen. Narrator.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781982496883 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1982496886 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT10025539 |
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