Lincoln & The Strategy of Union

The period 1815-1914 has often been characterized by military historians as an era of limited wars, and such a generalization is at least partly justified. The French-Italian war of 1859, Prussia\u27s wars of 1864, 1866, and 1870, the Crimean War, and the Russo­Turkish war of 1877-1878 were all conflicts which required something less than total mobilization and, with one exception, were all resolved short of the total destruction of the defeated power. One conflict during this period, however, proved to be an important exception

River Rams: Union Rams And Amphibious Assault Units Were \u27Useless\u27 And \u27Costly\u27

Chester G. Hearn is a prolific writer who has published an astonishing eight books in the past five years. Most of these concern naval aspects of the Civil War, and five of them, including this one, deal with the war on the Mississippi. Ellet\u27s Brigade is the history of a curious - even bizar...