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Introduction: masters and mechanics
Part I. The education and management gap: schooling, business, and culture in mid-nineteenth century America
Common school reform and science education
Mechanics' institutes and agricultural fairs: transmitting knowledge and information in antebellum America
Building the railroads: early development of the modern management system
Part II. Skills go to war
Wanted: volunteer engineers
Early successes and failures: Fort Henry and Fort Donelson, Island No. 10, and Middle Tennessee
McClellan tests his engineers: the Peninsula Campaign, 1862
Thomas Scott, Daniel McCallum, Herman Haupt, and the birth of the United States Military Railroad
Summer-Fall 1862: Maryland, Kentucky, and Tennessee
Part III. Applied engineering
Vicksburg
Gettysburg
Chattanooga
The Red River and Petersburg
Atlanta and the Carolina Campaign
Conclusion: know-how triumphant.
Part I. The education and management gap: schooling, business, and culture in mid-nineteenth century America
Common school reform and science education
Mechanics' institutes and agricultural fairs: transmitting knowledge and information in antebellum America
Building the railroads: early development of the modern management system
Part II. Skills go to war
Wanted: volunteer engineers
Early successes and failures: Fort Henry and Fort Donelson, Island No. 10, and Middle Tennessee
McClellan tests his engineers: the Peninsula Campaign, 1862
Thomas Scott, Daniel McCallum, Herman Haupt, and the birth of the United States Military Railroad
Summer-Fall 1862: Maryland, Kentucky, and Tennessee
Part III. Applied engineering
Vicksburg
Gettysburg
Chattanooga
The Red River and Petersburg
Atlanta and the Carolina Campaign
Conclusion: know-how triumphant.