With a Sword in One Hand & Jomini in the Other: The Problem of Military Thought in the Civil War North

by Carol Reardon

Book Overview

When the Civil War began, Northern soldiers and civilians alike sought a framework to help make sense of the chaos that confronted them. Many turned first to the classic European military texts from the Napoleonic era, especially Antoine Henri Jomini's Summary of the Art of War. As Carol Reardon shows, Jomini's work was only one voice in what ultimately became a lively and contentious national discourse about how the North should conduct war...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469642301
• ISBN13: 9781469642307
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"