Gettysburg College Annual summer conference. It is my pleasure this afternoon to introduce earl hess. Earl is the stuart w. Mcclelland chair in history at Lincoln Memorial university in tennessee. He is the author of more than 20 books. I have a long list here. Actually, one of my favorite books of earls. One of earls books i read in graduate school and is one of the finest and one of the very first books to explore soldier motivation and ideology. It is an outstanding book. But he has done any others that include pickets charge, a book on field fortifications. A book on Braxton Bragg as well. A lot of people dont love Braxton Bragg. Im not sure you will love him after you read earls book, but it is a fair and well researched, deeply analytical look at that controversial general. Earl has won a number of awards, including the tom watson price for his book on civil war tactics, something he will be speaking about today. And i should note, this book fighting for atlanta, is published by
Say, its one of the first books to explore social motivation, its an outstanding book is then vinny many others that include pickens charge, the rightful musket in the civil war, a book on field fortifications, and a lot of people dont know Braxton Bragg , im not sure you love them after you read the book but its a fair and very well researched analytical work at the controversial general. He is one a number of awards for his book on civil war tactic and i should know that this book fighting for atlanta was published by the university of North Carolina and will be his topic. We welcome earl hess. [ applause ] thank you for the generous introduction. Fighting for atlanta to tactics during entrenches in the civil war is the topic. The purpose is to understand one of the more important elements the influences the course of up rations during the Atlanta Campaign which is the role of field operations. Its a followup to a trilogy that i did several years ago for the eastern campaigns, volume
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