During the summer of 1862, a Confederate resurgence threatened to turn the tide of the Civil War. When the Union’s earlier multitheater thrust into the South proved to be a strategic overreach, the Confederacy saw its chance to reverse the loss of the Upper South through counteroffensives from the Chesapeake to the Mississippi. Benjamin Franklin Cooling tells this story in Counter-Thrust, recounting in harrowing detail Robert E. Lee’s flouting of his antagonist George B. McClellan’s drive to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond and describing the Confederate hero’s long-dreamt-of offensive to reclaim central and northern Virginia before crossing the Potomac. Counter-Thrust also provides a window into the Union’s internal conflict at building a successful military leadership team during this defining period. Cooling shows us Lincoln’s administration in disarray, with relations between the president and field commander McClellan strained to the breaking point. He also shows how the fortunes of war shifted abruptly in the Union’s favor, climaxing at Antietam with the bloodiest single day in American history—and in Lincoln’s decision to announce a preliminary Emancipation Proclamation. Here in all its gritty detail and considerable depth is a critical moment in the unfolding of the Civil War and of American history.

Counter-Thrust: From the Peninsula to the Antietam (Great Campaigns of the Civil War)

History

Cooling, Benjamin Franklin

Americas

University Of Nebraska Press

During the summer of 1862, a Confederate resurgence threatened to turn the tide of the Civil War. When the Union’s earlier multitheater thrust into the South proved to be a strategic overreach, the Confederacy saw its chance to reverse the loss of the Upper South through counteroffensives from the Chesapeake to the Mississippi. Benjamin Franklin Cooling tells this story in Counter-Thrust, recounting in harrowing detail Robert E. Lee’s flouting of his antagonist George B. McClellan’s drive to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond and describing the Confederate hero’s long-dreamt-of offensive to reclaim central and northern Virginia before crossing the Potomac. Counter-Thrust also provides a window into the Union’s internal conflict at building a successful military leadership team during this defining period. Cooling shows us Lincoln’s administration in disarray, with relations between the president and field commander McClellan strained to the breaking point. He also shows how the fortunes of war shifted abruptly in the Union’s favor, climaxing at Antietam with the bloodiest single day in American history—and in Lincoln’s decision to announce a preliminary Emancipation Proclamation. Here in all its gritty detail and considerable depth is a critical moment in the unfolding of the Civil War and of American history.

War, business, and American society: Historical perspectives on the military-industrial complex (Kennikat Press series in American studies)

Port Washington N. Y. : National University Publications - Kennikat Press

Forts Henry and Donelson: The Key to the Confederate Heartland

The University of Tennessee Press 1987. Dust jacket shiney and bright. Grey boards with black title on spine clean bumping bottom corners and spine. Pages clean with no names, marks, or highlights. Binding tight. Proceeds benefit the Oro Valley Library.

Univ of Tennessee Pr

Fort Donelson's Legacy portrays the tapestry of war and society in the upper southern heartland of Tennessee and Kentucky after the key Union victories at Forts Henry and Donelson in February 1862. Those victories, notes Benjamin Franklin Cooling, could have delivered the decisive blow to the Confederacy in the West and ended the war in that theater. Instead, what followed was terrible devastation and bloodshed that embroiled soldier and civilian alike. Cooling compellingly describes a struggle that was marked not only by the movement of armies and the strategies of generals but also by the rise of guerrilla bands and civil resistance. It was, in part, a war fought for geography - for rivers and railroads and for strategic cities such as Nashville, Louisville, and Chattanooga. But it was also a war for the hearts and minds of the populace. In exploring the complex terrain of "total war" that steadily engulfed Tennessee and Kentucky, Cooling draws on a huge array of sources, including official military records and countless diaries and memoirs. He makes considerable use of the words of participants to capture the attitudes and concerns of those on both sides.

Fort Donelson's Legacy: War and Society in Kentucky and Tennessee, 1862-1863

Since the introduction of aircraft to warfare, ground commanders have seen them as a powerful addition to their plans for dislodging and pursuing an enemy or for defending against assaults on friendly positions.  For military aviators, battlefield support is one of a range of possible uses of aircraft in attacking hostile forces.  Often, more profitable targets are in the enemy's war industries or in the opposing army's rear areas, where supplies and units are exposed on transportation nets leading to a fighting front.  This book examines the development of various doctrines on the application of aviation against battlefield targets.  Written by several well-known military and aviation historians, these analytical essays present examples of close air-support experience from World War I to the Arab-Israeli war of 1973.  Dr. Benjamin Franklin Cooling served as the Air Force project coordinator and general editor for this volume.  He received his doctor of philosophy degree from the University of Pennsylvania and began a career as a historian in the 1960s.  He has served in various research and supervisory positions with the U.S. Army Center of Military History, the U.S. Army Military History Institute, and the Office of Air Force History.  An authority on the history of the American Civil War, Dr. Cooling has published widely on military and naval topics of that era.  He has been executive director of the American Military Institute, a research fellow at the Naval War College, and a lecturer in military history at the U.S. Army War College.  In 1989, Dr. Cooling became Chief Historian of the Department of Energy.

Case Studies In the Development of Close Air Support (Special studies)

Cooling, B. F.

Military

Office of Air Force History

Recounts the efforts of Jubal Early, a Confederate general, to invade Washington, D.C., and analyses the unsuccessful campaign

Jubal Early's Raid on Washington: 1864

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Nautical & Aviation Pub Co of Amer

During the American Civil War, Washington, D.C. was the most heavily fortified city in North America. As President Abraham Lincoln's Capital, the city became the symbol of Union determination, as well as a target for Robert E. Lee's Confederates. As a Union army and navy logistical base, it contained a complex of hospitals, storehouses, equipment repair facilities, and animal corrals. These were in addition to other public buildings, small urban areas, and vast open space that constituted the capital on the Potomac. To protect Washington with all it contained and symbolized, the Army constructed a shield of fortifications: 68 enclosed earthen forts, 93 supplemental batteries, miles of military roads, and support structures for commissary, quartermaster, engineer, and civilian labor force, some of which still exist today. Thousands of troops were held back from active operations to garrison this complex. And the Commanders of the Army of the Potomac from Irvin McDowell to George Meade, and informally U.S. Grant himself, always had to keep in mind their responsibility of protecting this city, at the same time that they were moving against the Confederate forces arrayed against them. Revised in style, format, and content, the new edition of Mr. Lincoln's Forts is the premier historical reference and tour guide to the Civil War defenses of Washington, D.C.

Mr. Lincoln's Forts: A Guide to the Civil War Defenses of Washington

Owen, Walton H.

White Mane Pub

Cooling, Benjamin Franklin; SYMBOL, SWORD, AND SHIELD; Defending Washington During the Civil War; White Mane Pub; 1991; 305 Pages;

Symbol, Sword, and Shield: Defending Washington During the Civil War

To military aviators, "air superiority" is an unquestioned prerequisite for effective aerial operations. Stripped to its barest essentials, it has a deceptively simple definition. As the authoritative Department of Defense Diction of Military and Associated Terms declares: air superiority is "that degree of dominance in the air battle of one force over another which permits the conduct of operations by the former and its related land, sea, and air forces at a given time and place without prohibitive interference by the opposing force". These are case studies in the achievement of air superiority.

Case Studies in the Achievement of Air Superiority

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Counter-Thrust: From the Peninsula to the Antietam (Great Campaigns of the Civil War)

Counter-Thrust: From the Peninsula to the Antietam (Great Campaigns of the Civil War)

War, business, and American society: Historical perspectives on the military-industrial complex (Kennikat Press series in American studies)

Forts Henry and Donelson: The Key to the Confederate Heartland

Fort Donelson's Legacy: War and Society in Kentucky and Tennessee, 1862-1863

Case Studies In the Development of Close Air Support (Special studies)

Jubal Early's Raid on Washington: 1864

Mr. Lincoln's Forts: A Guide to the Civil War Defenses of Washington

Symbol, Sword, and Shield: Defending Washington During the Civil War

Case Studies in the Achievement of Air Superiority