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On to Petersburg - Grant and Lee, June 4-15, 1864 (Paperback)
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On to Petersburg - Grant and Lee, June 4-15, 1864 (Paperback)
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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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