Orlando M. Poe, Civil War General and Great Lakes Engineer by Paul Taylor, Kent State University Press, 2009, $65 When the U.S. Military Academy was established in West Point, N.Y., in 1802, early officials envisioned that its primary study focus would be artillery and engineering, but during the Civil War the academy’s best-known graduates were …
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