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Author(s): Kevin Dougherty
ISBN(s): 9781578069682, 1578069688
Edition: 1st
File Details: PDF, 1.53 MB
Year: 2007
Language: english
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ISBN 10:  1617030414

ISBN 13: 978-1617030413

Author: Kevin Dougherty

A great many commanders in the American Civil War (1861–1865) served in the Mexican War (1846–1848). Civil War Leadership and Mexican War Experience explores the influence of the earlier war on those men who would become leaders of Federal and Confederate forces. Military historian Kevin Dougherty sets the context with a discussion of professional soldiering before both wars. He then depicts the unique experiences of twenty-six men in Mexico, thirteen who would later serve the Confederacy and thirteen who would remain with the Union. He traces how tactics they used and reactions they had to Civil War combat reveal a remarkable connection to what they learned campaigning against Santa Anna and other Mexican generals.

Personalities discussed range from well-known leaders such as Ulysses S. Grant to lesser-known figures such as John Winder; from geniuses such as Robert E. Lee to mediocrities such as Gideon Pillow; and from aged heroes such as Winfield Scott to developing practitioners such as William Sherman. No other volume so exclusively and thoroughly focuses on connections of service in both wars.

Two appendixes in the book list 194 Federal generals and 142 Confederate generals who served in Mexico. The impact of these experiences on major tactical decisions in the Civil War is far-reaching.

 

Table of contents: 

Patterns of the Military Profession

PART ONE. THE FEDERALS

George McClellan and Siege Warfare

Ulysses S. Grant and Logistical Risk

Philip Kearny and Reckless Courage

Samuel Du Pont and the Naval Blockade

Winfield Scott and the Changing Nature of Warfare

John Pope and the Influence of Zachary Taylor

George Meade and Missed Opportunity

Jefferson Davis and the Bad Example

Joe Hooker and the Administrative Side

William Sherman and Room to Grow

Henry Halleck and the Military Executive

Henry Hunt and the Organization of Artillery

George Thomas and the Rock

PART TWO. THE CONFEDERATES

Robert E. Lee and Turning Movements Based on Reconnaissance

Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard and the Exception that Proves

the Rule

Jefferson Davis and Misplaced Confidence

Braxton Bragg and Jefferson Davis

John Winder and Wartime Governance

John Slidell and Doomed Diplomacy

Gideon Pillow and Political Generals

Stonewall Jackson and the Role of Artillery

James Longstreet and the Changed Mind?

George Pickett and the Quest for Glory

John Pemberton and Inflexibility

A. P. Hill and the Tendency to Criticize

Lewis Armistead and Comrades Becoming Enemies

Summary of Lessons Learned

APPENDIXES

A. Federal Civil War Generals Who Also Served in the Mexican War

B. Confederate Civil War Generals Who Also Served in the Mexican War

Works Cited

Index

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