Cold Harbor Grant and Lee May 26 June 3 1864 1st Edition by Gordon C Rhea ISBN 0807132446 9780807132449

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ISBN 10: 0807132446

ISBN 13: 9780807132449 

Author: Gordon C. Rhea

In his gripping fourth volume on the spring 1864 Overland campaign — which pitted Ulysses S. Grant against Robert E. Lee for the first time in the Civil War — Gordon Rhea vividly re-creates the battles and maneuvers from the North Anna stalemate through the Cold Harbor offensive. Once again Rhea’s tenacious research elicits stunning new facts from the records of a phase oddly ignored or mythologized by historians. The Cold Harbor of these pages differs sharply from the Cold Harbor of popular lore.
We see Grant, in one of his most brilliant moves, pull his army across the North Anna River and steal a march on Lee. In response, Lee sets up a strong defensive line along Totopotomoy Creek, and the battles spark across woods and fields northeast of Richmond. Their back to the Chickahominy River and on their last legs, the rebel troops defiantly face an army-wide assault ordered by Grant that extends over three days.
Rhea gives a surprising new interpretation of the famous battle that left seven thousand Union casualties and only fifteen hundred Confederate dead or wounded. Here, Grant is not a callous butcher, and Lee does not wage a perfect fight. Every imaginable primary source has been exhausted to unravel the strategies, mistakes, gambles, and problems with subordinates that preoccupied two exquisitely matched minds.
In Cold Harbor, Rhea separates fact from fiction in a charged, evocative narrative. He leaves readers under a moonless sky, Grant pondering the eastward course of the James River fifteen miles south of the encamped armies.

Table of contents:

Cover, Title Page, Copyright

Contents, Illustrations

Preface

Abbreviations

I: May 25, 1864: Lee Deadlocks Grant on the North Anna

II: May 26–27, 1864: Grant Shifts to the Pamunkey

III: May 28: Sheridan and Hampton Meet at Haw’s Shop

IV: May 29: Grant Searches for Lee

V: May 30: The Armies Clash at Bethesda Church and Matadequin Creek

VI: May 31: The Armies Drift toward Cold Harbor

VII: June 1: Grant and Lee Jockey for Position

VIII: June 1: Grant Attacks at Cold Harbor

IX: June 2: Grant Misses an Opportunity

X: June 3 4:30–5:30 A.M.: Hancock, Wright, and Smith Attack at Cold Harbor

XI: June 3: Lee Stalemates Grant Again

Appendix 1: The Union Order of Battle

Appendix 2: The Confederate Order of Battle

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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