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Destined to Fail - The Johnson-Gilmor Cavalry Raid Around Baltimore, July 10-13, 1864 (Hardcover)
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Destined to Fail - The Johnson-Gilmor Cavalry Raid Around Baltimore, July 10-13, 1864 (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R513
Discovery Miles 5 130
You Save R64 (11%)
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The Johnson-Gilmor Raid represents one of three attempts to free
prisoners of war during the American Civil War. Like the other two,
it was destined to fail for a variety of reasons, mostly because
the timetable for the operation was a schedule impossible to meet.
The mounted raid was a fascinating act of increasing desperation by
the Confederate high command in the summer of 1864, and
award-winning cavalry historian Eric J. Wittenberg presents the
gripping story in detail for the first time in Destined to Fail:
The Johnson-Gilmor Cavalry Raid around Baltimore, July 10-13, 1864.
The thundering high-stakes operation was intended to ease the
suffering of 15,000 Confederate prisoners held at Point Lookout,
Maryland, a peninsula at the confluence of the Potomac River and
the Chesapeake Bay. The story includes a motley cast of characters
on both sides and fast-paced drama in a deeply researched study
that draws upon published and unpublished primary sources,
including contemporary newspapers. Part of Wittenberg’s cogent
analysis compares and contrasts this raid to a pair of other
unsuccessful attempts to free Union prisoners of war – the
Kilpatrick-Dahlgren Raid of February-March 1864, and the Stoneman
Raid on Macon, Georgia of July 1864 – as well as Gen. George S.
Patton’s attempt to free his son-in-law and other American
prisoners in March of 1945. This book will be welcomed by anyone
with an interest in the Civil War, high-stakes cavalry operations,
or the politics of Civil War high command.
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