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Lott Robert P |
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Van Cleve at Chickamauga |
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Bielefeld : , : Pickle Partners Publishing, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (129 p.) |
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Unionists (United States Civil War) |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Title page -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- ABSTRACT -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- PREFACE -- CHAPTER 1 - INTRODUCTION -- Definitions -- Limitations -- Delimitations -- CHAPTER 2 - VAN CLEVE AND HIS STAFF -- The Staff of the 3rd Division -- Captain E. A. Otis - Assistant Adjutant General -- Captain Carter B. Harrison - Division Inspector -- Lieutenant Henry M. Williams - Aide-de-Camp -- Captain Lucius H. Drury - Chief of Artillery -- Major Samuel D. Turney - Medical Director -- Captain Charles A. Sheafe - Provost Marshall -- Lieutenant Edward Knoble - Aide-de-camp -- Lieutenant W. H. H. Sheets - Ordnance officer -- Captain T. Forrest Murdoch - Aide-de-Camp -- CHAPTER 3 - THE COMMANDERS AND REGIMENTS OF THE 3rd DIVISION -- The Commanders and Regiments of the 1st Brigade, 3rd Division -- Commander, 1st Brigade, 3rd Division Brigadier General Samuel Beatty -- 17th Kentucky Infantry Regiment - Colonel Alexander M. Stout -- 19th Ohio Volunteer Infantry - Lieutenant-Colonel Henry G. Stratton -- 79th Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment - Colonel Fred Knefler -- The Commander and Regiments of the 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division -- Commander, 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division - Colonel George Frederick Dick -- 13th Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry - Lieutenant-Colonel Elhannon M. Mast And captain H. G. Cosgrove |
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This thesis is an analysis of General Van Cleve and his division to |
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determine the proximate causes for their failure to withstand the brutal test of combat throughout the two-day battle.The thesis begins with a discussion of the importance of the study of war in order to draw out lessons which are still pertinent to today's officer. The thesis then briefly describes the weapons, tactics, organization, and staff available to a division commander during the American Civil War. The thesis continues with an examination of the backgrounds and combat experiences of Brigadier General Van Cleve, his staff, and his brigade and regimental commanders. The backgrounds and combat experiences of the regiments which comprised the division are also evaluated. Thereafter, the thesis analyzes the performance of General Van Cleve and his division beginning with their first combat action at the Battle of Stones River and culminates with an in-depth study of the division's performance at Chickamauga.The fog of war impacted negatively on Van Cleve's ability to control his men, yet his own personal shortcomings ultimately doomed the division to failure. |
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