Ethan S Rafuse
Biographic Data
| ID | 5881286 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ethan S Rafuse |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ethan S |
| FAMILY NAME | Rafuse |
| SIGNATURE | RAFUSE E S |
| AFFILIATIONS | United States Army Command and General Staff College |
| ORCID | 0009-0003-5394-3459 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
‘My General Idea of This War’
This essay offers a reconsideration of an idea in the ‘old’ military history, the wisdom of simultaneous advances by Union armies, that has become part of the established wisdom about the American Civil War. It describes how Ulysses S. Grant, whom historians have praised as evidence of Abraham Lincoln's wisdom in advocating simultaneous advances, understood there were times to employ alternative methods in conducting operations—and how in doing s…
Meade at Gettysburg
After the Civil War, debate raged among former Confederates over who lost the Battle of Gettysburg. Due in part to his decision to align politically with his old friend Ulysses S. Grant, a good deal of blame was attached to James Longstreet, although Richard S. Ewell, Jeb Stuart, and even Robert E. Lee came under criticism for their performance in the summer of 1863 as well. George Pickett, however, had a different take on what happened, remarkin…
How to Teach a Civil War Battle
In On War—which the military strategist Bernard Brodie declared in 1976 to be “not simply the greatest but the only truly great book on war”—the Prussian military theorist Carl von Clausewitz included a chapter titled “On Danger in War.” (1) To help readers understand this enduring aspect of war, Clausewitz endeavored to give them a sense of what an actual battlefield was like in a passage so vivid and powerful that it merits reproduction in full…
Lincoln at the Gates of History - By Charles Bracelen Flood
A Soldier to the Last
A Crisis in Confederate Command
A Crisis in Confederate Command: Edmund Kirby Smith, Richard Taylor, and the Army of the Trans-Mississippi. By Jeffery S. Prushankin. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005. Pp. xx, 308. $39.95.) Although operations in the Trans-Mississippi have hardly been ignored by historians of the Civil War, there is a longstanding and probably correct belief that this theater has not received sufficient attention or appreciation from students …
McClellan's War
Commanding the Army of the Potomac
Finally, historians of the Civil War are moving out of the grand shadows cast by Bruce Catton and his protégé, Stephen W. Sears, and undertaking long overdue reexaminations of the Army of the Potomac. In just the past few years, John Hennessy, Russel Beatie, Jeffry Wert, and others have published studies that offer useful insights into the men who belonged to that hard-luck army, their four years of bitter struggle with their political masters in…
The Ongoing Civil War
Introduction by Herman Hattaway and Ethan S. Rafuse The Professional Historian and Popular by Mark Grimsley Old Brains Was Brainy After All by Herman Hattaway and Archer Jones McLellan, von Clausewitz, and the Politics of War by Ethan S. Rafuse Franklin Pierce and the Civil War by Michael J. C. Taylor Union Lifeline by Mark A. Snell Before the Wilderness: What Lee Knew by William A. Tidwell in Hindsight: by Albert Castel Philatelic Pugilists by J…
Jefferson Davis in Blue
Extraordinary Circumstances
Retreat to Victory? Confederate Strategy Reconsidered
A Meteor Shining Brightly
Burnside's Bridge
Blue and Gray in Black and White
Quest for a Star
The Military Memoirs of General John Pope
Union general John Pope was among the most controversial and misunderstood figures to hold major command during the Civil War. Before being called east in June 1862 to lead the Army of Virginia against General Robert E. Lee, he compiled an enviable record in Missouri and as commander of the Army of the Mississippi. After his ignominious defeat at the Second Battle of Bull Run, he was sent to the frontier. Over the next twenty-four years Pope held…
North with Lee and Jackson
Crossing the Deadly Ground
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Crossing the Deadly Ground
North with Lee and Jackson
The Military Memoirs of General John Pope
Union general John Pope was among the most controversial and misunderstood figures to hold major command during the Civil War. Before being called east in June 1862 to lead the Army of Virginia against General Robert E. Lee, he compiled an enviable record in Missouri and as commander of the Army of the Mississippi. After his ignominious defeat at the Second Battle of Bull Run, he was sent to the frontier. Over the next twenty-four years Pope held…
Blue and Gray in Black and White
Quest for a Star
Extraordinary Circumstances
Retreat to Victory? Confederate Strategy Reconsidered
A Meteor Shining Brightly
Burnside's Bridge
Jefferson Davis in Blue
The Ongoing Civil War
Introduction by Herman Hattaway and Ethan S. Rafuse The Professional Historian and Popular by Mark Grimsley Old Brains Was Brainy After All by Herman Hattaway and Archer Jones McLellan, von Clausewitz, and the Politics of War by Ethan S. Rafuse Franklin Pierce and the Civil War by Michael J. C. Taylor Union Lifeline by Mark A. Snell Before the Wilderness: What Lee Knew by William A. Tidwell in Hindsight: by Albert Castel Philatelic Pugilists by J…
A Crisis in Confederate Command
A Crisis in Confederate Command: Edmund Kirby Smith, Richard Taylor, and the Army of the Trans-Mississippi. By Jeffery S. Prushankin. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005. Pp. xx, 308. $39.95.) Although operations in the Trans-Mississippi have hardly been ignored by historians of the Civil War, there is a longstanding and probably correct belief that this theater has not received sufficient attention or appreciation from students …
McClellan's War
Commanding the Army of the Potomac
Finally, historians of the Civil War are moving out of the grand shadows cast by Bruce Catton and his protégé, Stephen W. Sears, and undertaking long overdue reexaminations of the Army of the Potomac. In just the past few years, John Hennessy, Russel Beatie, Jeffry Wert, and others have published studies that offer useful insights into the men who belonged to that hard-luck army, their four years of bitter struggle with their political masters in…
A Soldier to the Last
Lincoln at the Gates of History - By Charles Bracelen Flood
How to Teach a Civil War Battle
In On War—which the military strategist Bernard Brodie declared in 1976 to be “not simply the greatest but the only truly great book on war”—the Prussian military theorist Carl von Clausewitz included a chapter titled “On Danger in War.” (1) To help readers understand this enduring aspect of war, Clausewitz endeavored to give them a sense of what an actual battlefield was like in a passage so vivid and powerful that it merits reproduction in full…
Meade at Gettysburg
After the Civil War, debate raged among former Confederates over who lost the Battle of Gettysburg. Due in part to his decision to align politically with his old friend Ulysses S. Grant, a good deal of blame was attached to James Longstreet, although Richard S. Ewell, Jeb Stuart, and even Robert E. Lee came under criticism for their performance in the summer of 1863 as well. George Pickett, however, had a different take on what happened, remarkin…
‘My General Idea of This War’
This essay offers a reconsideration of an idea in the ‘old’ military history, the wisdom of simultaneous advances by Union armies, that has become part of the established wisdom about the American Civil War. It describes how Ulysses S. Grant, whom historians have praised as evidence of Abraham Lincoln's wisdom in advocating simultaneous advances, understood there were times to employ alternative methods in conducting operations—and how in doing s…
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