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Command Conflicts in Grant's Overland Campaign: Ambition and Animosity in the Army of the Potomac - Couverture souple

Smith, Diane Monroe

 
9780786468171: Command Conflicts in Grant's Overland Campaign: Ambition and Animosity in the Army of the Potomac
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ISBN 10 : 0786468173 ISBN 13 : 9780786468171
Editeur : McFarland & Co Inc, 2012

Synopsis

This book follows the men of the 5th Corps and the Army of the Potomac through the Wilderness, Spotsylvania and Cold Harbor, with the army condemned to moving blindly through enemy territory without the benefit of cavalry scouting or screening. It considers the lost opportunities of June 1864, when Grant's masterly movement of the Army of the Potomac across the James to confront the enemy at Petersburg should have ended in victory and the fall of Richmond.

Bungling and complacency doomed the attacks on Petersburg's fortifications, and instead of victory, the battered Federals faced a drawn-out siege, and another 10 months of war. Finally, the author considers what happened to a number of the prominent Federal participants in the Overland Campaign during the last year of the war and after. Many of those who lied and cheated their way to the top became government leaders and the authors of policy for years to come.

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À propos de l'auteur

Diane Monroe Smith is the author of several books about the Civil War. She lives in Holden, Maine.

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Éditeur
McFarland & Co Inc
Date d'édition
2012
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0786468173
ISBN 13 
9780786468171
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
256
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