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The conflict of 1861-1865 provides an excellent field for the study of the basic principles of strategy. This field has been discriminatingly tilled by Barron Deaderick in a well-reasoned analysis of the strategy pursued by the top commanders of the North and of the South. The result is a book of value not only to the student of the military art but also to the citizen interested in his Nation’s military history. Owing to his position as Assistant Historian-in-chief to the Sons of Confederate Veterans, the author and compare the strategy used by the field commanders of both the blue and the gray. He shows how the basic principles of strategy were observed—or disregarded—by Lee, Grant, Sherman, Bragg, Jackson, Hooker, McClellan, Thomas, and others, in the bloodiest war on the American continent. From long study of the decisive battles of the Civil War he has drawn conclusions with reasoned judgment and clarity, written in a style that makes for easy reading. The official records and original sources of information have been freely drawn upon to give Strategy in the Civil War the solid ground demanded by the serious student.

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Barron Deaderick was born on a plantation in Shelby County, Tennessee, near Memphis, in 1886. During World War I he served sixteen months as an infantryman, part of the time as second lieutenant and commander of a company of candidates in Officers’ Training School, and as bayonet instructor. Subsequently he became a cotton buyer. Early in life he became interested in the study of history, and especially of military campaigns. His zeal in these researches has never flagged. Besides his Strategy in the Civil War, he has in preparation a history of the military operations in general of American forces in all of our wars. In his studies he has specialized on the basic principles of grand strategy as laid down by leading authorities, including Jomini, Clausewitz, Moltke, Henderson, Foch, Maurice, and Fuller. For many years he has been Assistant Historian-in-chief of the Sons of Confederate Veterans. His home is in Memphis.

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