West Pointers and the Civil War

The Old Army in War and Peace

Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:The University of North Carolina Press

Published:1st Dec '14

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West Pointers and the Civil War cover

Most Civil War generals were graduates of West Point, and many of them helped transform the U.S. Army from what was little better than an armed mob that performed poorly during the War of 1812 into the competent fighting force that won the Mexican War. Hsieh demonstrates how the ""old army"" transformed itself into a professional military force after 1814, and, more important, how ""old army"" methods profoundly shaped the conduct of the Civil War.

ISBN: 9781469621937

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 1g

304 pages