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On to Petersburg - Grant and Lee, June 4-15, 1864 (Hardcover)
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On to Petersburg - Grant and Lee, June 4-15, 1864 (Hardcover)
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With On to Petersburg, Gordon C. Rhea completes his much-lauded
history of the Overland Campaign, a series of Civil War battles
fought between Generals Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee in
southeastern Virginia in the spring of 1864. Having previously
covered the campaign in his magisterial volumes on The Battle of
the Wilderness, The Battles for Spotsylvania Court House and the
Road to Yellow Tavern, To the North Anna River, and Cold Harbor,
Rhea ends this series with a comprehensive account of the last
twelve days of the campaign, which concluded with the beginning of
the siege of Petersburg. On to Petersburg follows the Union army's
movement to the James River, the military response from the
Confederates, and the initial assault on Petersburg, which Rhea
suggests marked the true end of the Overland Campaign. Beginning
his account in the immediate aftermath of Grant's three-day attack
on Confederate troops at Cold Harbor, Rhea argues that the Union
general's primary goal was not- as often supposed- to take
Richmond, but rather to destroy Lee's army by closing off its
retreat routes and disrupting its supply chains. While Grant
struggled at times to communicate strategic objectives to his
subordinates and to adapt his army to a faster-paced, more flexible
style of warfare, Rhea suggests that the general successfully
shifted the military landscape in the Union's favor. On the rebel
side, Lee and his staff predicted rightly that Grant would attempt
to cross the James River and lay siege to the Army of Northern
Virginia while simultaneously targeting Confederate supply lines.
Rhea examines how Lee, facing a better-provisioned army whose
troops outnumbered Lee's two to one, consistently fought the Union
army to an impasse, employing risky, innovative field tactics to
counter Grant's forces. Like the four volumes that preceded it, On
to Petersburg represents decades of research and scholarship and
will stand as the most authoritative history of the final battles
in the campaign.
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