Strike them a blow : battle along the North Anna River May 21-25, 1864 / by Chris Mackowski.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mackowski, Chris, author.

Series:

Emerging Civil War series.

Emerging Civil War Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wilderness, Battle of the, Va., 1864.

North Anna River, Battle of, Va., 1864.

Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Campaigns.

Virginia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (193 p.)

Place of Publication:

California : Savas Beatie, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For sixteen days the armies had grappled-a grueling horror-show of nonstop battle, march, and maneuver that stretched through May of 1864. Federal commander Ulysses S. Grant had resolved to destroy his Confederate adversaries through attrition if by no other means. He would just keep at them until he used them up.Meanwhile, Grant's Confederate counterpart, Robert E. Lee, looked for an opportunity to regain the offensive initiative. ""We must strike them a blow,"" he told his lieutenants.The toll on both armies was staggering.But Grant's war of attrition began to take its toll in a more insidio

Contents:

Acknowledgments; Touring the Battlefield; Foreword by Gordon C. Rhea; Prologue; Chapter One: The Campaign; Chapter Two: Hancock's March; Chapter Three: The Fog of War; Chapter Four: Leaving Spotsylvania; Chapter Five: The Night March; Chapter Six: "Wherever Lee Goes . . ."; Chapter Seven: Before the Storm; Chapter Eight: The Battle for Henagan's Redoubt; Chapter Nine: The Battle of Jericho Mills; Chapter Ten: Lee's Council of War; Chapter Eleven: At Mt. Carmel Church; Chapter Twelve: Marching into the Trap; Chapter Thirteen: The Battle of Ox Ford; Chapter Fourteen: Strike Them a Blow

Chapter Fifteen: StalemateApp endix A: The Battle of Wilson's Wharf by Emmanuel Dabney; App endix B: The Battle of Milford Station by Daniel T. Davis; App endix C: The Eye of the Storm by Chris Mackowski; App endix D: Lee's Engineer: Martin Luther Smith by Rob Orrison; App endix E: Preserving North Anna: A Personal Battlefield Journeyby John F. Cummings III; Appendix F: Preserving North Anna: The Art of the Battleby Chris Mackowski; Order of Battle; Suggested Reading; About the Author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 24, 2015).

ISBN:

9781611212556

1611212553