Cold Harbor to the Crater : the end of the Overland Campaign / edited by Gary W. Gallagher & Caroline E. Janney.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gallagher, Gary W., editor.

Janney, Caroline E., editor.

Series:

Military campaigns of the Civil War

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Overland Campaign, Va., 1864.

Cold Harbor, Battle of, Va., 1864.

Petersburg Crater, Battle of, Va., 1864.

Petersburg (Va.)--History--Siege, 1864-1865.

Petersburg (Va.).

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Campaigns.

United States.

History.

Military campaigns.

Virginia.

Virginia--Petersburg.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xvii, 336 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2015]

Contents:

Introduction / Gary W. Gallagher and Caroline E. Janney

The two generals who resist each other: perceptions of Grant and Lee in the summer of 1864 / Gary W. Gallagher

Repairing an army: a look at the new troops in the Army of Northern Virginia in May and June 1864 / Robert E. L. Krick

I told him to go on: enduring Cold Harbor / Kathryn Shively Meier

Breastworks are good things to have on battlefields: Confederate engineering operations and field fortifications in the Overland Campaign / Keith S. Bohannon

Francis Channing Barlow's Civil War / Joan Waugh

Grant's disengagement from Cold Harbor: June 12-13, 1864 / Gordon C. Rhea

We will finish the war here: Confederate morale in the Petersburg trenches, June and July 1864 / M. Keith Harris

A war thoroughfare: Confederate civilians and the Siege of Petersburg / Caroline E. Janney

The devil himself could not have checked them: fighting with Black soldiers at the Crater / Kevin M. Levin

The Battle of the Crater in recent fiction / Stephen Cushman.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781469625331

1469625334

OCLC:

905970120