‘My General Idea of This War’: Simultaneous Advances and Civil War Military History
Published online on June 24, 2026
Abstract
War in History, Ahead of Print.
This essay offers a reconsideration of an idea in the ‘old’ military history, the wisdom of simultaneous advances by Union armies, that has become part of the established wisdom about the American Civil War. It describes how Ulysses S. Grant, whom ...
This essay offers a reconsideration of an idea in the ‘old’ military history, the wisdom of simultaneous advances by Union armies, that has become part of the established wisdom about the American Civil War. It describes how Ulysses S. Grant, whom ...