West Pointers and the Civil War (eBook)

The Old Army in War and Peace

Wayne Wei-Siang Hsieh (Autor)

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2009
304 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-0-8078-9856-7 (ISBN)

Infos

Most Civil War generals were graduates of West Point, and many of them helped transform the U.S. Army from what was little better than an armed mob that performed poorly during the War of 1812 into the competent fighting force that won the Mexican War. Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh demonstrates how the old army transformed itself into a professional military force after 1814, and, more important, how old army methods profoundly shaped the conduct of the Civil War.

Autor

Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh is associate professor of history at the United States Naval Academy and has served with the U.S. State Department on a Provincial Reconstruction Team in Iraq.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.11.2009
• Reihe/Serie: Civil War America
• Reihe/Serie: Civil War America
• Zusatzinfo: 3 charts, 2 tables, 4 maps, notes, bibl., index
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: Civil War Generals • old army methods • the old army in war and peace • transformation of the american army • united states army • wayne wei-siang hsieh • west point alumni in the civil war • west pointers and the civil war
• ISBN-10: 0-8078-9856-2 / 0807898562
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8078-9856-7 / 9780807898567