A01=Gordon C. Rhea
Army of Northern Virginia
Author_Gordon C. Rhea
battles
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Civil War
Confederacy
Confederate Army
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James River
maneuvers
North Anna
offensive
Overland Campaign
Robert E. Lee
Totoptomoy Creek
Ulysses S. Grant
Union Army
Product details
- ISBN 9780807132449
- Weight: 767g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Apr 2007
- Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Gordon Rhea's gripping fourth volume on the spring 1864 campaign- which pitted Ulysses S. Grant against Robert E. Lee for the first time in the Civil War- vividly re-creates the battles and maneuvers from the stalemate on the North Anna River through the Cold Harbor offensive. Cold Harbor: Grant and Lee, May 26- June 3, 1864 showcases Rhea's tenacious research which elicits stunning new facts from the records of a phase oddly ignored or mythologized by historians. In clear and profuse tactical detail, Rhea tracks the remarkable events of those nine days, giving a surprising new interpretation of the famous battle that left seven thousand Union casualties and only fifteen hundred Confederate dead or wounded. Here, Grant is not a callous butcher, and Lee does not wage a perfect fight. Within the pages of Cold Harbor, Rhea separates fact from fiction in a charged, evocative narrative. He leaves readers under a moonless sky, with Grant pondering the eastward course of the James River fifteen miles south of the encamped armies.
Gordon C. Rhea is the author ofOn to Petersburg: Grant and Lee, June 4- 15, 1864; The Battle of the Wilderness, May 5- 6, 1864; The Battles for Spotsylvania Court House and the Road to Yellow Tavern, May 7- 12, 1864; and To the North Anna River: Grant and Lee, May 13- 25, 1864, winner of the Fletcher Pratt Literary Award, among other books. He lives in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina.
