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Cold Harbor to the Crater : the end of the Overland Campaign /

Between the end of May and the beginning of August 1864, Lt. Gen. U.S. Grant and Gen. R.E. Lee oversaw the transition between the Overland campaign and what became a gruelling, eight and a half month investment of Petersburg that eventually compelled Confederates to abandon Richmond. Although many h...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Gallagher, Gary W. (Editor ), Janney, Caroline E. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2015]
Colección:Military campaigns of the Civil War.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Gary W. Gallagher and Caroline E. Janney
  • The two generals who resist each other: perceptions of Grant and Lee in the summer of 1864 / Gary W. Gallagher
  • Repairing an army: a look at the new troops in the Army of Northern Virginia in May and June 1864 / Robert E.L. Krick
  • I told him to go on: enduring Cold Harbor / Kathryn Shively Meier
  • Breastworks are good things to have on battlefields: Confederate engineering operations and field fortifications in the Overland Campaign / Keith S. Bohannon
  • Francis Channing Barlow's Civil War / Joan Waugh
  • Grant's disengagement from Cold Harbor: June 12-13, 1864 / Gordon C. Rhea
  • We will finish the war here: Confederate morale in the Petersburg trenches, June and July 1864 / M. Keith Harris
  • A war thoroughfare: Confederate civilians and the Siege of Petersburg / Caroline E. Janney
  • The devil himself could not have checked them: fighting with Black soldiers at the Crater / Kevin M. Levin
  • The Battle of the Crater in recent fiction / Stephen Cushman.