Comments on: Cloyd Allen Smith, Jr.’s Sailor’s Creek Thesis from Texas A&M http://www.brettschulte.net/CWBlog/2008/04/06/cloyd-allen-smith-jrs-sailors-creek-thesis-from-texas-am/ Informed Amateurs Blog the American Civil War Sat, 11 Feb 2012 11:41:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Directory of History Dissertations: A Nice Search Tool http://www.brettschulte.net/CWBlog/2008/04/06/cloyd-allen-smith-jrs-sailors-creek-thesis-from-texas-am/comment-page-1/#comment-444 Directory of History Dissertations: A Nice Search Tool Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:27:38 +0000 http://www.brettschulte.net/CWBlog/?p=539#comment-444 [...] war” and came up with 315 hits immediately. Some of you may have read my recent post on Cloyd Allen Smith, Jr.’s Sailor’s Creek thesis, and you know from that post of my interest in “collecting” unpublished theses and [...] [...] war” and came up with 315 hits immediately. Some of you may have read my recent post on Cloyd Allen Smith, Jr.’s Sailor’s Creek thesis, and you know from that post of my interest in “collecting” unpublished theses and [...]

]]> By: Ted Savas http://www.brettschulte.net/CWBlog/2008/04/06/cloyd-allen-smith-jrs-sailors-creek-thesis-from-texas-am/comment-page-1/#comment-405 Ted Savas Sun, 06 Apr 2008 20:38:15 +0000 http://www.brettschulte.net/CWBlog/?p=539#comment-405 Hi Brett You have hit on an interesting point. Our very successful "The Guns of Independence: The Siege of Yorktown," by Jerome Greene, was originally developed for the park service, and not for public eyes. When I got my hands on a copy, I saw the potential, and Greene graciously agreed to a re-write and expansion to make it trade-worthy. We are working on several other unpublished works, including an examination of the Sailor's Creek manuscript (I don't know if that is available, and we have not spoken to the author yet). Keep up the good work. (Also, great find, Fred. Very interesting.) Best regards. tps Theodore P. Savas Savas Beatie LLC 989 Governor Drive, Suite 102 El Dorado Hills, CA 95762 916.941.6896 (Voice) 916-941.6895 (Fax) www.savasbeatie.com Join us online for some publishing blogspeak at www.savasbeatie.blogspot.com and http://savasbeatiemarketing.blogspot.com/ Hi Brett

You have hit on an interesting point. Our very successful “The Guns of Independence: The Siege of Yorktown,” by Jerome Greene, was originally developed for the park service, and not for public eyes. When I got my hands on a copy, I saw the potential, and Greene graciously agreed to a re-write and expansion to make it trade-worthy.

We are working on several other unpublished works, including an examination of the Sailor’s Creek manuscript (I don’t know if that is available, and we have not spoken to the author yet).

Keep up the good work.

(Also, great find, Fred. Very interesting.)

Best regards.

tps
Theodore P. Savas
Savas Beatie LLC
989 Governor Drive, Suite 102
El Dorado Hills, CA 95762
916.941.6896 (Voice)
916-941.6895 (Fax)
http://www.savasbeatie.com

Join us online for some publishing blogspeak at
http://www.savasbeatie.blogspot.com and http://savasbeatiemarketing.blogspot.com/

]]> By: Fred Ray http://www.brettschulte.net/CWBlog/2008/04/06/cloyd-allen-smith-jrs-sailors-creek-thesis-from-texas-am/comment-page-1/#comment-403 Fred Ray Sun, 06 Apr 2008 17:17:12 +0000 http://www.brettschulte.net/CWBlog/?p=539#comment-403 Here's on for you, Brett. If this link does not come thru email me. http://stinet.dtic.mil/oai/oai?verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA384203 Abstract : Helmuth von Moltke's alleged statement the U.S. Civil War was an affair in which two armed mobs chased each other around the country and from which no lessons could be learned underlines a grave misjudgment of this war in contemporary Germany. Today, however, the American Civil War is recognized as the first modern war. It produced a number of lessons across the strategic operational and tactical levels that shaped the face of war. But the German observers failed to draw significant conclusions at the time. A wide variety of reasons inhibited a thorough and unbiased analysis. This study aims to analyze the German observations and to arrive at the causes that led to the underestimation and disregard of the lessons from the Civil War. The thesis provides a sketch of the Civil War and the situation of contemporary Germany. It then examines the German observers and their evaluations. Thereafter, the author reflects selected essential lessons of the war against the contemporary German military evolution. In a final step the conclusions of these sections will merge into an analysis of the causes, which prevented the German army from arriving at the lessons of the U.S. Civil War. Here’s on for you, Brett. If this link does not come thru email me.

http://stinet.dtic.mil/oai/oai?verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA384203

Abstract : Helmuth von Moltke’s alleged statement the U.S. Civil War was an affair in which two armed mobs chased each other around the country and from which no lessons could be learned underlines a grave misjudgment of this war in contemporary Germany. Today, however, the American Civil War is recognized as the first modern war. It produced a number of lessons across the strategic operational and tactical levels that shaped the face of war. But the German observers failed to draw significant conclusions at the time. A wide variety of reasons inhibited a thorough and unbiased analysis. This study aims to analyze the German observations and to arrive at the causes that led to the underestimation and disregard of the lessons from the Civil War. The thesis provides a sketch of the Civil War and the situation of contemporary Germany. It then examines the German observers and their evaluations. Thereafter, the author reflects selected essential lessons of the war against the contemporary German military evolution. In a final step the conclusions of these sections will merge into an analysis of the causes, which prevented the German army from arriving at the lessons of the U.S. Civil War.

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