Engineering Victory

Engineering Victory

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Army Thomas F.
Johns Hopkins University Press
EAN: 9781421425160
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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 scientific ingenuity and innovation to complex problems in a way that Confederate soldiers simply could not match. Skilled Free State engineers who were trained during the antebellum period benefited from basic educational reforms, the spread of informal educational practices, and a culture that encouraged learning and innovation. During the war, their rapid construction and repair of roads, railways, and bridges allowed Northern troops to pass quickly through the forbidding terrain of the South as retreating and maneuvering Confederates struggled to cut supply lines and stop the Yankees from pressing any advantage.

By presenting detailed case studies from both theaters of the war, Army clearly demonstrates how the soldiers’ education, training, and talents spelled the difference between success and failure, victory and defeat. He also reveals massive logistical operations as critical in determining the war’s outcome.

EAN 9781421425160
ISBN 1421425165
Typ produktu Měkká vazba
Vydavatel Johns Hopkins University Press
Datum vydání 27. března 2018
Stránky 392
Jazyk English
Rozměry 229 x 152 x 24
Země United States
Sekce Professional & Scholarly
Autoři Army Thomas F.
Ilustrace 10 Maps; 18 Halftones, black and white
Série Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology