Engineering Victory : How Technology Won the Civil War Paperback / softback
by Thomas F., Jr. Army
Part of the Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology series
Paperback / softback
Description
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.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:392 pages, 10 Maps; 18 Halftones, black and white
- Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press
- Publication Date:27/03/2018
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- ISBN:9781421425160
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:392 pages, 10 Maps; 18 Halftones, black and white
- Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press
- Publication Date:27/03/2018
- Category:
- ISBN:9781421425160