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Engineering Victory

Name: Engineering Victory
Brand: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
SKU: 9781421419374
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JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESSISBN: 9781421419374

How Technology Won the Civil War

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By Thomas F. Army
Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Release Date: August 14, 2016
Format: HARDBACK
Pages: 392

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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 engineeringnot superior military strategy or industrial advantageas 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.

List of Maps
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part II The Education and Management Gap
1. Common School Reform and Science Education
2. Mechanics' Institutes and Agricultural Fairs
3. Building the Railroads
Part II
4. Wanted: Volunteer Engineers
5. Early Successes and Failures
6. McClellan Tests His Engineers
7. The Birth of the United States Military Railroad
8. SummerFall 1862
Part III
9. Vicksburg
10. Gettysburg
11. Chattanooga
12. The Red River and Petersburg
13. Atlanta and the Carolina Campaigns
Conclusion
Notes
Essay on Sources
Index

""Engineering Victory will appeal to historians in the areas of technology, education, and military studies. Obviously, historians of science and technology will benefit the most from this book since it is primarily written for the purposes of highlighting engineering advancements and implementations by the Union Army during the Civil War... While Army does not deny that the Union had material and industrial advantages over the Confederacy, by examining the state of education in the North and the role Union engineers played in winning the war, he has opened a new avenue to explore in why the Civil War ended with a Union victory. Military historians would be wise to follow the trail that Army has started and continue this exploration of avenue of Civil War history.""

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