Hurricane from the heavens : the Battle of Cold Harbor, May 26-June 5, 1864 / by Daniel T. Davis and Phillip S. Greenwalt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davis, Daniel T., 1982- author.

Greenwalt, Phillip S., author.

Series:

Emerging Civil War series.

Emerging Civil War series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cold Harbor, Battle of, Va., 1864.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (356 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

California : Savas Beatie, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

""Lee's army is really whipped,"" Federal commander Ulysses S. Grant believed.May 1864 had witnessed near-constant combat between his Army of the Potomac and the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. Grant, unlike his predecessors, had not relented in his pounding of the Confederates. The armies clashed in the Wilderness and at Spotsylvania Courthouse and along the North Anna River. Whenever combat failed to break the Confederates, Grant resorted to maneuver. ""I propose to fight it out along this line if it takes all summer,"" Grant vowed-and it had.Casualties mounted on both sides-but Grant

Contents:

Grant and Lee

Changing face of war

March to the Pamunkey

Haw's Shop

Totopotomoy Creek

Bethesda Church

Matadequin Creek

Another crossroads

Cold Harbor, June 1

Cold Harbor, June 2

Cold Harbor, June 3 II Corps assault

Cold Harbor, June 3 VI Corps assault

Cold Harbor, June 3 XVIII Corps assault

Aftermath of battle

Toward the James

Conclusion.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781611211887

1611211883