Conflict and command [electronic resource] / edited by John T. Hubbell.

Includes index.

"We should grow too fond of it" : why we love the Civil War / Drew Gilpin Faust -- Was the Civil War a total war? / Mark Neely Jr -- A "face of battle" needed : an assessment of motives and men in Civil War historiography / Marvin R. Cain -- The Confederacy's first shot / Grady McWhiney -- The professionalization of George B. McClellan and early field command / Edward Hagerman -- Pinkerton and McClellan : who deceived whom? / Edwin C. Fishel -- McClellan and Halleck at war : the struggle for the Union war effort in the West, November 1861-March 1862 / Ethan S. Rafuse -- Jefferson Davis's pursuit of ambition : the attractive features of alternative decisions / Richard E. Beringer -- "The enemy at Richmond" : Joseph E. Johnston and the Confederate government / Richard M. McMurry -- An old-fashioned general in a modern war? : Robert E. Lee as Confederate general / Gary W. Gallagher -- Marse Robert and the fevers : a note on the general as strategist and on medical ideas as a factor in Civil War decision making / Richard M. McMurry -- Everyman's war : a rich and poor man's fight in Lee's army / Joseph T. Glatthaar -- Another look at Grant's crossing of the James, 1864 / Brian Holden Reid -- Mars and the reverend Longstreet, or, Attacking and dying in the Civil War / Albert Castel -- Who whipped whom? : Confederate defeat reexamined / Grady McWhiney.

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