Book contents
- The Cambridge History of the American Civil War
- The Cambridge History of the American Civil War
- The Cambridge History of the American Civil War
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors to Volume II
- Note on the Text
- Part I Causes
- Part II Managing the War
- 4 Strategy, Operations, and Tactics
- 5 Union Military Leadership
- 6 Confederate Military Leadership
- 7 Technology and War
- 8 Armies and Discipline
- 9 Financing the War
- 10 Guerrilla Wars
- 11 Occupation
- 12 Atrocities, Retribution, and Laws
- 13 Environmental War
- 14 Civil War Health and Medicine
- 15 Prisoners of War
- Part III The Global War
- Part IV Politics
- Index
- References
6 - Confederate Military Leadership
from Part II - Managing the War
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 October 2019
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Book contents
- The Cambridge History of the American Civil War
- The Cambridge History of the American Civil War
- The Cambridge History of the American Civil War
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors to Volume II
- Note on the Text
- Part I Causes
- Part II Managing the War
- 4 Strategy, Operations, and Tactics
- 5 Union Military Leadership
- 6 Confederate Military Leadership
- 7 Technology and War
- 8 Armies and Discipline
- 9 Financing the War
- 10 Guerrilla Wars
- 11 Occupation
- 12 Atrocities, Retribution, and Laws
- 13 Environmental War
- 14 Civil War Health and Medicine
- 15 Prisoners of War
- Part III The Global War
- Part IV Politics
- Index
- References
Summary
The delegates at the Montgomery convention selected Jefferson Davis as Confederate president in part because they expected war and believed Davis would make a good commander in chief. An 1828 West Point graduate and seven-year veteran of the regular US Army, Davis had served as colonel of a Mississippi volunteer regiment in the Mexican–American War, gaining accolades for his role at the battles of Monterrey and Buena Vista. During the 1850s he served as secretary of war under President Franklin Pierce and later as chairman of the Senate’s Committee on Military Affairs. There was scarcely anyone in America with better qualifications for leading a nation in wartime.
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- The Cambridge History of the American Civil War , pp. 118 - 140Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019
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