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    Union and Confederate Civil War Strategies: A 59-Minute Perspective
    Union and Confederate Civil War Strategies: A 59-Minute Perspective
    Union and Confederate Civil War Strategies: A 59-Minute Perspective
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    Union and Confederate Civil War Strategies: A 59-Minute Perspective

    By Martina Sprague

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    The Civil War is an enormously important event in our nation's history, and not just a fleeting disagreement about slavery between the northern and southern states. As such, it has impacted our country's political course into modern day. The results of the Civil War reinforced the motto, E pluribus unum (Out of many, one), and strengthened the notion that the United States is indeed united, despite its many states, and despite the fact that the North and South continue to maintain significant different political views. Although the Civil War ended slavery based on legal doctrine, the oppression of the former slaves did not end, and racism has continued through the Civil Rights era and continues to some extent today. The war also brought to light that military leaders may change their basic moral standards when a conflict proves difficult to win.

    There are many prisms through which one can view Civil War strategies, and one might naturally be tempted to draw many lessons from the Civil War. Rather than providing definite answers, this brief study aims at rousing additional interest and provoking critical thinking about what might have been the most important event in our nation's history. As such, it focuses on the underlying social and political factors that shaped the decision of the southern states to secede from the Union, and the Union's subsequent attempt to prevent their secession. Discussions include the following topics:

    1. Political Background of the Civil War

    2. Robert E. Lee's War Strategies

    3. Ulysses S. Grant's and William Tecumseh Sherman's War Strategies

    4. How Likely Was Victory for the Confederate States in the Early Years of the War?

    5. Other Factors That Influenced Union Victory and Confederate Loss

    6. Reshaping the Military in the Reconstruction Period

    7. Military Reforms in the Last Decades of the Nineteenth Century

    8. Topics for Further Study and Debate

    The book is suitable for history interested readers looking for thought provoking topics, but not having a lot of time; and for teachers preparing the class for critical thinking about historical events, and how they have come to affect current affairs. More books with focus on domestic and international military history will be forthcoming in this new series titled, A 59-Minute Perspective.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMartina Sprague
    Release dateApr 29, 2018
    ISBN9781386089759
    Union and Confederate Civil War Strategies: A 59-Minute Perspective
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    Martina Sprague

    Martina Sprague grew up in the Stockholm area of Sweden. She has a Master of Arts degree in Military History from Norwich University in Vermont and has studied a variety of combat arts since 1987. As an independent scholar, she writes primarily on subjects pertaining to military and general history, politics, and instructional books on the martial arts. For more information, please visit her website: www.modernfighter.com.

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      Union and Confederate Civil War Strategies - Martina Sprague

      INTRODUCTION

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      The Civil War is an enormously important event in our nation’s history, and not just a fleeting disagreement about slavery between the northern and southern states. As such, it has impacted our country’s political course into modern day. The results of the Civil War reinforced the motto, E pluribus unum (Out of many, one), and strengthened the notion that the United States is indeed united, despite its many states, and despite the fact that the North and South continue to maintain significant different political views. Although the Civil War ended slavery based on legal doctrine, the oppression of the former slaves did not end, and racism has continued through the Civil Rights era and continues to some extent today. The war also brought to light that military leaders may change their basic moral standards when a conflict proves difficult to win. Although it is unlikely that neither the Union nor the Confederate soldiers fought against or for the continuation of slavery on an individual basis, the issue of slavery had a significant effect on triggering the war, not for humanitarian reasons but as a byproduct of economic development. Slaves worked as cheap laborers on the southern farms. Naturally, if these farms were no longer allowed to own and employ slaves as they saw fit, they would have to employ white free laborers, which would cost considerably more and therefore become a threat to the economy of the southern states.

      At the start of the war, the primary objective for both sides was the destruction of the enemy army. As the war dragged on, attacks against enemy resources and noncombatants became more frequent, particularly among the Union armies. What makes this particularly chilling may be the fact that the American people were descended from the same population. They came essentially from the same background, spoke the same language, had fought together in the War of Independence against Britain, and were otherwise largely in tune with each other. Since both northern and southern armies came from similar European backgrounds and shared a history together in America prior to the Civil War, the differences in performance between the two armies can be attributed to disparities in industrial and economic capability, and to the leadership; a claim that can be substantiated by the number of books that have been written, for example, about Robert E. Lee, the commander of the Confederate Army. The Union Army, too, enjoyed distinctive leadership in Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman.

      Since so much has already been written about the Civil War, one might ask what else there is to say. There are many prisms through which one can view Civil War strategies, and one might naturally be tempted to draw many lessons from the Civil War. Rather than providing definite answers, this brief study aims at rousing additional interest and provoking critical thinking about what might have been the most important event in our nation’s history. As such, it focuses on the underlying social and political factors that shaped the decision of the southern states to

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