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Strike them a blow : battle along the North Anna River, May 21-25, 1864 /

For sixteen days the armies had grappled-a grueling horror-show of nonstop battle, march, and maneuver that stretched through May of 1864. Federal commander Ulysses S. Grant had resolved to destroy his Confederate adversaries through attrition if by no other means. He would just keep at them until h...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mackowski, Chris (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: El Dorado Hills, California : Savas Beatie, [2015]
Colección:Emerging Civil War series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Acknowledgments; Touring the Battlefield; Foreword by Gordon C. Rhea; Prologue; Chapter One: The Campaign; Chapter Two: Hancock's March; Chapter Three: The Fog of War; Chapter Four: Leaving Spotsylvania; Chapter Five: The Night March; Chapter Six: "Wherever Lee Goes . . ."; Chapter Seven: Before the Storm; Chapter Eight: The Battle for Henagan's Redoubt; Chapter Nine: The Battle of Jericho Mills; Chapter Ten: Lee's Council of War; Chapter Eleven: At Mt. Carmel Church; Chapter Twelve: Marching into the Trap; Chapter Thirteen: The Battle of Ox Ford; Chapter Fourteen: Strike Them a Blow. 
505 8 |a Chapter Fifteen: StalemateApp endix A: The Battle of Wilson's Wharf by Emmanuel Dabney; App endix B: The Battle of Milford Station by Daniel T. Davis; App endix C: The Eye of the Storm by Chris Mackowski; App endix D: Lee's Engineer: Martin Luther Smith by Rob Orrison; App endix E: Preserving North Anna: A Personal Battlefield Journeyby John F. Cummings III; Appendix F: Preserving North Anna: The Art of the Battleby Chris Mackowski; Order of Battle; Suggested Reading; About the Author. 
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