Edward Hagerman (1939–2016)
Author of The American Civil War and the Origins of Modern Warfare: Ideas, Organization, and Field Command (Midland Book)
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Of interest is his implication that Grant’s determination of wagon usage at the beginning of his Overland campaign shows that he started from an assumption of attrition rather than mobility. The weight of trains Grant planned for would never have allowed for any rapid flanking movements.
Written in 1988, he relies a bit too much on the “rifled musket revolutionized offensive tactics” theory which later scholarship has pretty much refuted, but other than that, the book holds up well.… (more)