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Engineering Victory: How Technology Won the Civil War (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology)

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Engineering Victory brings a fresh strategy to the question of why the North prevailed within the Civil War. Historian Thomas F. Army, Jr., identifies strength in engineering―not superior military strategy or industrial advantage―as the very important determining factor within the war’s outcome.

Army finds that Union soldiers were ready to use scientific ingenuity and innovation to complex problems in a way that Confederate soldiers simply could not match. Skilled Free State engineers who were trained All over the antebellum period benefited from basic educational reforms, the spread of informal educational practices, and a culture that encouraged learning and innovation. All over the war, their rapid construction and repair of roads, railways, and bridges allowed Northern troops to pass quickly during the forbidding terrain of the South as retreating and maneuvering Confederates struggled to chop supply lines and stop the Yankees from pressing any advantage.

By presenting detailed case studies from both theaters of the war, Army clearly demonstrates how the warriors’ education, training, and talents spelled the adaptation between success and failure, victory and defeat. He also reveals massive logistical operations as very important in determining the war’s outcome.

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