Year: 1980
Type: article
Abstract: Reviewsultimately led to successful combined operations, and states that these lessons were not lost upon later military planners.Civil War enthusiasts and military historians should find a great deal to interest them in Reed's book.Accounts of operations in the Mississippi Valley, including those which failed to open the river, will be of interest to Mississippi Valley historians.Reed makes the cogent argument that Vicksburg fell not by brilliant planning, but as a result of the situation in which the combatants found themselves.This leads her to suggest that what happens in war often comes out of the pressure of circumstances and only appears in retrospect to have been planned.This eminently readable book provides an adequate portrayal of the politics and personalities involved and demonstrates how combined operations were affected by other theaters of the war.Although it skips over the tragedy of civil war, and frequently omits the casualty figures, the work has a place in any basic collection of Civil War books.
DOI: 10.2307/40023907
Authors: James J. Hudson, William C. Davis
Language: English
Subfield: Cultural Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4300544720