Combined Operations In The Civil War By Rowena Reed

1978 Hardcover

Dust Jacket

Naval Institute Press

Civil war history

Combined Operations in the Civil War by Rowena Reed is a 1978 book that analyzes Union army-navy cooperation during the Civil War, focusing on strategy, politics, and the generalship of figures like George B. McClellan, arguing that better combined operations could have ended the war sooner. The book examines the planning and political aspects of these "joint" operations (in modern terminology) and is noted for its pro-McClellan stance and its argument that circumstances, not just brilliant planning, shaped outcomes like the fall of Vicksburg.