TY - BOOK AU - Army,Thomas F. TI - Engineering victory: how technology won the Civil War T2 - Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology SN - 9781421419381 AV - E468 .E545 2016 PY - 2016/// CY - Baltimore PB - Johns Hopkins University Press KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; Introduction: 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 railroads: the 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; 2; b UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1083519&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -