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| Acknowledgments | ||
| Introduction | 1 | |
| 1 | A Lost Opportunity? | 7 |
| 2 | The Antagonists | 24 |
| 3 | Pressure in Both Camps | 40 |
| 4 | "10,000 Damned Gorillas" | 53 |
| 5 | "The State of Things...Was Very Discouraging" | 68 |
| 6 | Three Wasted Opportunities | 89 |
| 7 | "A Protecting Shield" | 109 |
| 8 | "This Fatal Campaign" | 119 |
| App. 1 | Campaign Chronology | 129 |
| App. 2 | Order of Battle | 133 |
| App. 3 | Maps | 139 |
| Notes | 155 | |
| Bibliography | 171 | |
| Index | 177 |
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Jacques Van Der Velde
reviewed The Red River Campaign of 1864 and the Loss by the Confederacy of the Civil War on January 03, 2014
The Red River Campaign of 1864 and the Loss by the Confederacy of the Civil War
The book is a bit all over the place, repetitive, and error ridden. On the plus side, it offers a good discussion of the ideas of Napoleon and Jomini and their application to the Civil War, particularly in discussing Beauregard. The western concentration bloc is an interesting idea, only undermined by repetitive discussions. They do not take it too far, pointing out it was diffuse. The analysis of Davis as commander is spot on, of Lee less so since he becomes a kind of villain with his Virginia first idea. However, Lee's obsession with Virginia is reduced to his localism instead of looking into why the Union forces there were more than double those in any other field army. One might say Lincoln and Stanton had a Virginia first obsession and Lee was merely reacting to that. As to Lee's advice on the west always being reduced to how it would influence Virginia, while mostly true, he did offer advice in early 1862 for an attack on Shiloh. Virginia was not even mentioned.
All in all, one is better off reading How the North Won, where the ideas are better presented and discussed without Connelly's anti-Lee bias.
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