Engineering victory: how technology won the Civil War

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 railroads: the 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.