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Major General George H. Sharpe and the Creation of the American Military Intelligence in the Civil War (Hardcover)
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Major General George H. Sharpe and the Creation of the American Military Intelligence in the Civil War (Hardcover)
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The vital role of the military all-source intelligence in the
eastern theater of operations during the U.S. Civil War is told
through the biography of its creator, George H. Sharpe. Renowned
historian Peter Tsouras contends that this creation under Sharpe's
leadership was the combat multiplier that ultimately allowed the
Union to be victorious. Sharpe is celebrated as one of the most
remarkable Americans of the 19th century. He built an intelligence
organization (The Bureau of Military Information - BMI) from a
standing start beginning in February 1863. He was the first man in
military history to create a professional all-source intelligence
operation, defined by the U.S. Army as "the intelligence products,
organizations, and activities that incorporates all sources of
information, in the production of intelligence." By early 1863, in
the two and half months before the Chancellorsville Campaign,
Sharpe had conducted a breath-taking Intelligence Preparation of
the Battlefield (IPB) effort. His reports identified every brigade
and its location in Lee's army, provided an accurate
order-of-battle down to the regiment level and a complete analysis
of the railroad. The eventual failure of the campaign was outside
of the control of Sharpe, who had assembled a staff of 30-50 scouts
and support personnel to run the military intelligence operation of
the Army of the Potomac. He later supported Grant's Armies
Operating Against Richmond (AOAR) during the Siege of Petersburg,
where the BMI played a fundamental role in the victory. His career
did not end in 1865. Sharpe crossed paths with almost everyone
prominent in America after the Civil War. He became one of the most
powerful Republican politicians in New York State, had close
friendships with Presidents Grant and Arthur, and was a champion of
African-American Civil rights. With the discovery of the day-by-day
journal of John C. Babcock, Sharpe's civilian deputy and
order-of-battle analyst in late 1963, and the unpublished Hooker
papers, the military correspondence of Joseph Hooker during his
time as a commander of the Army of the Potomac, Tsouras has
discovered a unique window into the flow of intelligence reporting
which gives a new perspective in the study of military operations
in the U.S. Civil War.
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