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Cold Harbor to the Crater - The End of the Overland Campaign (Hardcover)
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Cold Harbor to the Crater - The End of the Overland Campaign (Hardcover)
Series: Military Campaigns of the Civil War
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Between the end of May and the beginning of August 1864, Lt. Gen.
Ulysses S. Grant and Gen. Robert E. Lee oversaw the transition
between the Overland campaign - a remarkable saga of maneuvering
and brutal combat - and what became a grueling siege of Petersburg
that many months later compelled Confederates to abandon Richmond.
Although many historians have marked Grant's crossing of the James
River on June 12-15 as the close of the Overland campaign, this
volume interprets the fighting from Cold Harbor on June 1-3 through
the battle of the Crater on July 30 as the last phase of an
operation that could have ended without a prolonged siege. The
contributors assess the campaign from a variety of perspectives,
examining strategy and tactics, the performances of key commanders
on each side, the centrality of field fortifications, political
repercussions in the United States and the Confederacy, the
experiences of civilians caught in the path of the armies, and how
the famous battle of the Crater has resonated in historical memory.
As a group, the essays highlight the important connections between
the home front and the battlefield, showing some of the ways in
which military and nonmilitary affairs played off and influenced
one another. Contributors include Keith S. Bohannon, Stephen
Cushman, M. Keith Harris, Robert E. L. Krick, Kevin M. Levin,
Kathryn Shively Meier, Gordon C. Rhea, and Joan Waugh.
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