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The Wilderness Campaign.
LIBRA Special E476.52 .S78
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Steere, Edward, 1898-1974.
- Series:
- Civil War campaigns
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wilderness, Battle of the, Va., 1864.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Battles--Virginia--Wilderness.
- Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885.
- Grant, Ulysses S.
- Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870.
- Lee, Robert E.
- Local Subjects:
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Battles--Virginia--Wilderness.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 525 pages : maps. ; 23 cm.
- Edition:
- [First edition].
- Place of Publication:
- Harrisburg, Pa. : Stackpole Co., [1960]
- Contents:
- The adversaries
- The federal plan, operation wilderness
- Lee's plan, operation Rapidan
- Into the wilderness
- Lee maneuvers for position
- Meade suspends march to deployment
- Meade withholds his blow
- Grant abandons movement towards Lee's right
- Lee accepts Grant's offer of battle
- Griffin shakes Ewell's line
- The V Corpse attack, Wadsworth is ambushed
- Grant strives to mount a general attack
- Hancock assaults the Plank Road Ridge
- Hancock continues the attack
- Sedgwick's attack
- Misadventures of Sheridan's cavalry
- Grant attempts a grand assault
- Lee at bay
- Grant assails Lee's line
- Longstreet stops Hancock
- Hancock tries to revive his attack
- Sheridan takes a hand
- Longstreet demolishes Birney's column
- Lee launches last grand assault
- Darkness stops Gordon's attack
- Grant and Lee.
- Notes:
- Bibliography: pages 477-511.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- OCLC:
- 1411649
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