The Spotsylvania Campaign.

By: Gallagher, Gary WMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Military Campaigns of the Civil War SerPublisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2010Copyright date: ©1998Description: 1 online resource (289 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780807898376Subject(s): Spotsylvania Court House, Battle of, Va., 1864Genre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Spotsylvania CampaignDDC classification: 973.7/36 LOC classification: E476.52 -- .S66 1998ebOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- I Have to Make the Best of What I Have: Robert E. Lee at Spotsylvania -- The Federal High Command at Spotsylvania -- The Testing of a Corps Commander: Gouverneur Kemble Warren at the Wilderness and Spotsylvania -- An Insurmountable Barrier between the Army and Ruin: The Confederate Experience at Spotsylvania's Bloody Angle -- Stuart's Last Ride: A Confederate View of Sheridan's Raid -- A Hard Road to Travel: The Impact of Continuous Operations on the Army of the Potomac and the Army of Northern Virginia in May 1864 -- We Respect a Good Soldier, No Matter What Flag He Fought Under: The 15th New Jersey Remembers Spotsylvania -- Grant's Second Civil War: The Battle for Historical Memory -- Bibliographic Essay -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
Summary: The Spotsylvania Campaign was a crucial period in the protracted confrontation between Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee in spring 1864. Approaching the campaign from a variety of perspectives, the contributors to this volume explore questions regarding high command, tactics and strategy, the impact of continuous fighting on officers and soldiers in both armies, and the ways in which some participants chose to remember and interpret the campaign. They offer insight into the decisions and behavior of Lee and of Federal army leaders, the fullest descriptions to date of the horrific fighting at the "Bloody Angle" on May 12, and a revealing look at how Grant used his memoirs to counter Lost Cause interpretations of his actions at Spotsylvania and elsewhere in the Overland Campaign. The contributors are William A. Blair, Peter S. Carmichael, Gary W. Gallagher, Robert E. L. Krick, Robert K. Krick, William D. Matter, Carol Reardon, and Gordon C. Rhea.
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Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- I Have to Make the Best of What I Have: Robert E. Lee at Spotsylvania -- The Federal High Command at Spotsylvania -- The Testing of a Corps Commander: Gouverneur Kemble Warren at the Wilderness and Spotsylvania -- An Insurmountable Barrier between the Army and Ruin: The Confederate Experience at Spotsylvania's Bloody Angle -- Stuart's Last Ride: A Confederate View of Sheridan's Raid -- A Hard Road to Travel: The Impact of Continuous Operations on the Army of the Potomac and the Army of Northern Virginia in May 1864 -- We Respect a Good Soldier, No Matter What Flag He Fought Under: The 15th New Jersey Remembers Spotsylvania -- Grant's Second Civil War: The Battle for Historical Memory -- Bibliographic Essay -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

The Spotsylvania Campaign was a crucial period in the protracted confrontation between Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee in spring 1864. Approaching the campaign from a variety of perspectives, the contributors to this volume explore questions regarding high command, tactics and strategy, the impact of continuous fighting on officers and soldiers in both armies, and the ways in which some participants chose to remember and interpret the campaign. They offer insight into the decisions and behavior of Lee and of Federal army leaders, the fullest descriptions to date of the horrific fighting at the "Bloody Angle" on May 12, and a revealing look at how Grant used his memoirs to counter Lost Cause interpretations of his actions at Spotsylvania and elsewhere in the Overland Campaign. The contributors are William A. Blair, Peter S. Carmichael, Gary W. Gallagher, Robert E. L. Krick, Robert K. Krick, William D. Matter, Carol Reardon, and Gordon C. Rhea.

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