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020			_a9781421425160
050			_aE468.9 _b.A741 2018
100			_aArmy, Thomas F.,
245			_aEngineering Victory : _bhow technology won the Civil War / _cThomas F. Army, Jr.
260			_aBaltimore: _bJohns Hopkins University Press, _c2018.
300			_axiv, 369 Pages: _billustrations, maps ; _c23 cm.
440			_aJohns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology
505			_aIntroduction: masters and mechanics -- Part I. The education and management gap: schooling, business, and culture in mid-nineteenth century America -- Common school reform and science education -- Mechanics' institutes and agricultural fairs: transmitting knowledge and information in antebellum America -- Building the railroads: early development of the modern management system -- Part II. Skills go to war -- Wanted: volunteer engineers -- Early successes and failures: Fort Henry and Fort Donelson, Island No. 10, and Middle Tennessee -- McClellan tests his engineers: the Peninsula Campaign, 1862 -- Thomas Scott, Daniel McCallum, Herman Haupt, and the birth of the United States Military Railroad -- Summer-Fall 1862: Maryland, Kentucky, and Tennessee -- Part III. Applied engineering -- Vicksburg -- Gettysburg -- Chattanooga -- The Red River and Petersburg -- Atlanta and the Carolina Campaign -- Conclusion: know-how triumphant.
651			_aUnited States _xHistory _xTechnology. _yCivil War, 1861-1865
651			_aUnited States _xHistory. _xCampaigns. _yCivil War, 1861-1865
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