During the summer of 1862, a Confederate resurgence threatened
to turn the tide of the Civil War. When the Union's earlier
multitheater thrust into the South proved to be a strategic
overreach, the Confederacy saw its chance to reverse the loss of
the Upper South through counteroffensives from the Chesapeake to
the Mississippi. Benjamin Franklin Cooling tells this story in
"Counter-Thrust," recounting in riveting detail Robert E. Lee's
flouting of his antagonist George B. McClellan's drive to capture
the Confederate capital at Richmond and describing the Confederate
hero's long-dreamt-of offensive to reclaim central and northern
Virginia before crossing the Potomac.
"Counter-Thrust" also provides a window into the Union's
internal conflict, which hampered building a successful military
leadership team during this defining period. Cooling shows us
Lincoln's administration in disarray, with relations between the
president and field commander McClellan strained to the breaking
point. He also shows how the fortunes of war shifted abruptly in
the Union's favor, climaxing at Antietam with the bloodiest single
day in American history--and in Lincoln's decision to announce a
preliminary emancipation proclamation. Here in all its gritty
detail and considerable depth is a critical moment in the unfolding
of the Civil War and American history.
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