West Pointers and the Civil War
The Old Army in War and Peace
By Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh
304 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, notes, bibl., index
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Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4696-2193-7
Published: December 2014 -
eBook ISBN: 978-0-8078-9856-7
Published: November 2009 -
Large Print ISBN: 978-0-8078-6600-9
Published: November 2010
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Awards & distinctions
2009 New York Military Affairs Symposium Civil War Book Award
About the Author
Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh is associate professor of history at the United States Naval Academy and has served with the U.S. State Department on a Provincial Reconstruction Team in Iraq.
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Reviews
"Leaves few stones unturned in examining how the professional officer corps produced by the U.S. Military Academy in the 19th century influenced the evolution of battlefield tactics at this critical point in our nation's history. . . . [Adds] another perspective to the historiography of a complex topic."--Civil War Times
"Judicious and well-researched. . . . Hsieh's project . . . is to explain the mentality of military professionals. . . . It is a task that he accomplishes with great skill."--Journal of American History
"This original and important book asks us to reconceptualize much of what we think about the Civil War."--Journal of Southern History
"Skillfully explores institutional efforts to develop and maintain the army's infantry, artillery, and mounted standards."--Civil War Book Review
"A solid contribution to scholarship . . . [An] excellent treatment of antebellum debates over tactical doctrine and particular tactical events during the war."--Journal of Military History
"The most useful section of Hsieh's book for the general historian of the Civil War is his discussion of [the officers of the professional army officer corps]."--Louisiana History