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1 online resource : illustrations, maps |
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Military campaigns of the Civil War |
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Military campaigns of the Civil War.
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| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 historians have marked Grant's crossing of the James on June 12-15 as the close of the campaign, this volume, the tenth in the 'Military Campaigns of the Civil War' series, situates the fighting from Cold Harbor on June 1-3 through the battle of the Crater on July 30 as the last phase of the campaign. Together the ten essays examine strategy and tactics, the performances of key commanders on each side, the campaign's political repercussions, and the experiences of civilians caught in the path of the armies |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Overland Campaign, Va., 1864.
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Cold Harbor, Battle of, Va., 1864.
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Petersburg Crater, Battle of, Va., 1864.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
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HISTORY -- United States -- Civil War Period (1850-1877)
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Military campaigns
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Petersburg (Va.) -- History -- Siege, 1864-1865.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95002069
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140216
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| Subject |
United States
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Virginia
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Virginia -- Petersburg
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Gallagher, Gary W., editor.
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Janney, Caroline E., editor.
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| ISBN |
9781469625355 |
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1469625350 |
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9781469625348 |
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1469625342 |
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