Gary W. Gallagher & Caroline E. Janney 
Cold Harbor to the Crater [EPUB ebook] 
The End of the Overland Campaign

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Between the end of May and the beginning of August 1864, Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and Gen. Robert E. Lee oversaw the transition between the Overland campaign—a remarkable saga of maneuvering and brutal combat—and what became a grueling siege of Petersburg that many months later compelled Confederates to abandon Richmond. Although many historians have marked Grant’s crossing of the James River on June 12–15 as the close of the Overland campaign, this volume interprets the fighting from Cold Harbor on June 1–3 through the battle of the Crater on July 30 as the last phase of an operation that could have ended without a prolonged siege. The contributors assess the campaign from a variety of perspectives, examining strategy and tactics, the performances of key commanders on each side, the centrality of field fortifications, political repercussions in the United States and the Confederacy, the experiences of civilians caught in the path of the armies, and how the famous battle of the Crater has resonated in historical memory. As a group, the essays highlight the important connections between the home front and the battlefield, showing some of the ways in which military and nonmilitary affairs played off and influenced one another.
Contributors include Keith S. Bohannon, Stephen Cushman, M. Keith Harris, Robert E. L. Krick, Kevin M. Levin, Kathryn Shively Meier, Gordon C. Rhea, and Joan Waugh.

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Caroline E. Janney is the John L. Nau III Professor in the History of the American Civil War and Director of the John L. Nau III Center for Civil War History at the University of Virginia.

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Limba Engleză ● Format EPUB ● Pagini 360 ● ISBN 9781469625348 ● Mărime fișier 9.5 MB ● Editor Gary W. Gallagher & Caroline E. Janney ● Editura The University of North Carolina Press ● Oraș Chapel Hill ● Țară US ● Publicat 2015 ● Descărcabil 24 luni ● Valută EUR ● ID 5509851 ● Protecție împotriva copiilor Adobe DRM
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