TY - JOUR
AU - Noe, Kenneth W.
AB - Book Reviews 1251 mentality is fascinatingly portrayed in the William Tecumseh Sherman abandoned Napo- book by the Union’s hardheaded attempts to leonic strategy for modern war. control nature, such as the military efforts to With a Sword in One Hand and Jomini in reroute the Mississippi and its tributaries. the Other is part of a healthy revisionist trend in Another lasting contribution of Brady’s Civil War military history, already shaped in book is the analysis of Northern perceptions part by Carol Reardon’s meticulous scholar- of Southern environments. To many North- ship, marking the current sesquicentennial erners, the unkempt landscapes of the South recognition. The book’s title is ironic; Reardon demonstrated the moral failure of their enemy reasserts other scholars’ arguments that the ac- and partly justified harsh actions toward the quaintance of the Civil War officer corps with region and its inhabitants. Less fresh is the Jomini actually was shallow, fleeting, and often story of Union attempts to destroy the agro- unappreciated. Jomini also was not particular- ecological base of Southern society; numerous ly original or effective as a theorist. Most im- scholars have already discussed the ecological portantly, his was only one voice among many component of the 
TI - With a Sword in One Hand and Jomini in the Other: The Problem of Military Thought in the Civil War North
JO - The Journal of American History
DO - 10.1093/jahist/jas553
DA - 2013-03-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/with-a-sword-in-one-hand-and-jomini-in-the-other-the-problem-of-4uVov2YbTL
SP - 1251
EP - 1252
VL - 99
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -