Youth in Command

Abstract

This analysis involved an examination of the ages of commanders at the division level and above in two of the principal armies (Army of the Potomac for the Union and Army of Northern Virginia for the Confederacy) of the American Civil War. The ages of the men in these positions were surveyed at selected dates over the course of the conflict. The survey began with the armies as they existed at the time of the Peninsula Campaign (April-July 1862). This starting date was chosen because the initial organizational confusion of the first year of the war was past, and many (but not all) of the older, regular army officers and politicians who had been made commanders of large units at the start of the war but proved unequal to the task has been weeded out. (KR)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1988
Accession Number
ADA216639

Entities

People

  • Charles J. Crawford

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Army
  • Army Training
  • Civil War
  • Civil War (United States)
  • Infantry
  • Military Science
  • Military Training
  • Motivation
  • New York
  • Second World War
  • Training
  • United States
  • Vietnam War
  • Virginia
  • War
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • History

Readers

  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.
  • Military Leadership and Professional Education.