Earl J. Hess
Author of Pea Ridge: Civil War Campaign in the West
About the Author
Earl J. Hess holds the Stewart W. McClelland Chair in History at Lincoln Memorial University.
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Works by Earl J. Hess
The Civil War in the West: Victory and Defeat from the Appalachians to the Mississippi (2012) 95 copies
Wilson's Creek, Pea Ridge, and Prairie Grove: A Battlefield Guide, with a Section on Wire Road (2006) 33 copies
Storming Vicksburg: Grant, Pemberton, and the Battles of May 19-22, 1863 (Civil War America) (2020) 26 copies
A German in the Yankee Fatherland: The Civil War Letters of Henry A. Kircher (1983) — Editor — 14 copies
Animal Histories of the Civil War Era (Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War) (2022) 5 copies
Associated Works
The road to Richmond : the Civil War memoirs of Maj. Abner R. Small of the 16th Maine Vols.; with his diary as a… (1939) — Introduction, some editions — 24 copies
The Civil War Diary of Cyrus F. Boyd Fifteenth Iowa Infantry 1861-1863 (1953) — Introduction, some editions — 18 copies
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- 1955-07-10
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- male
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- USA
- Birthplace
- Missouri, USA
- Education
- Southeast Missouri State University (BA, MA|History)
Purdue University (PhD|American Studies, History|1986) - Occupations
- Stewart W. McClelland Chair in history, Lincoln Memorial University
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Frankly, Hess finds the most interesting difference is that the gunners of the American Civil War seemed to have been much more motivated than their Napoleonic predecessors, as they were generally willing to stand by their guns until the verge of being overrun, and than die by their guns. Hess suspects that the lesson that European observers should have been taking from the combat is not that the forces were so green, it's that so much was done with men basically dragged off the street with the addition of solid training in a viable doctrine, and with a willingness to learn lessons from experience.
It has to be admitted that this is a rather dry exercise, but if you need to learn about the nuts and bolts of artillery at this stage of history, this is the book you want to be dipping into.… (more)