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Book SynopsisHe reveals massive logistical operations as critical in determining the war's outcome.
Trade ReviewA thoughtful treatise on an important subject related to war, culture, and society, Engineering Victory is a highly recommended reading. Civil War Books and Authors Highly recommended. All levels/libraries. Choice Army's description of Union Army engineers and their accomplishments is certainly thorough and impressive. he relates numerous examples of how the effective use of engineers led to victory while an ineffective application led to defeat. The Michigan Historical Review Thomas Army Jr. has produced an interesting and thought-provoking study of military engineering in the Civil War with which students of the war, logistics, and technology will have to reckon. Civil War Book Review This intriguing book illuminates much about markets and, particularly, about the "culture of the market" as financial capitalism began its will to power in America. Civil War Book Review
Table of ContentsList of Maps
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part II The Education and Management Gap
1. Common School Reform and Science Education
2. Mechanics' Institutes and Agricultural Fairs
3. Building the Railroads
Part II
4. Wanted: Volunteer Engineers
5. Early Successes and Failures
6. McClellan Tests His Engineers
7. The Birth of the United States Military Railroad
8. Summer–Fall 1862
Part III
9. Vicksburg
10. Gettysburg
11. Chattanooga
12. The Red River and Petersburg
13. Atlanta and the Carolina Campaigns
Conclusion
Notes
Essay on Sources
Index
