Engineering Victory: How Technology Won the Civil War

by Thomas F. Army

Book Overview

Superior engineering skills among Union soldiers helped ensure victory in the Civil War.

Engineering Victory brings a fresh approach to the question of why the North prevailed in the Civil War. Historian Thomas F. Army, Jr., identifies strength in engineering--not superior military strategy or industrial advantage--as the critical determining factor in the war's outcome.

Army finds that Union soldiers were able to apply...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421419378
• ISBN13: 9781421419374
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.0"