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The Battles for Spotsylvania Court House and the Road to Yellow Tavern continues Goldon C. Rhea's peerless treatment of the Civil War's clash of ...Show synopsisThe Battles for Spotsylvania Court House and the Road to Yellow Tavern continues Goldon C. Rhea's peerless treatment of the Civil War's clash of titans: Grant's Army of the Potomac versus Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. Inlaid with detail, innovative analysis, riveting prose, and an abundance of supporting primary evidence, it is a worthy sequel to Rhea's first, acclaimed work, The Battle of the Wilderness, May 5-6, 1864. Here Rhea examines the maneuvers and battles from May 7, 1864, when Grant left the Wilderness, through May 12, when his attempt to break Lee's line through frontal assault reached a chilling climax at what is now called the Bloody Angle. After suffering severe casualties in the Wilderness, Lee had no choice but to curb his aggressive instincts and prepare for a defensive battle at Spotsylvania. Perfecting the art of fieldworks (which foreshadowed the trenches in France during World War I), he orchestrated his threadbare veterans in a defensive performance that ranks as a classic in military history. Grant, sworn to destroy Lee's army, had to solve the knotty problem of penetrating those confounding, well-appointed earthworks. He mounted a volley of assaults that proved slaughterous for both armies and led to a turning point in his strategic thinking. Contributing to the carnage were advances in weaponry that by 1864 had outstripped current Napoleonic tactical doctrine. The result was massive casualties: on May 12 alone, Lee lost eight thousand men; Grant, nine thousand. Rhea draws exhaustively upon previously untapped materials -- most notably contemporary newspaper accounts and diaries and letters only recently made available -- to construct the definitiveaccount of Grant and Lee at Spotsylvania. Here for the first time is a detailed description of the cavalry's role in the campaign, from the grim fighting at Todd's Tavern through Philip Sheridan's Richmond raid and Jeb Stuart's mortal wounding at Yellow Tavern. Here, too, are fresh and challenging interpretations that often contradict conventional wisdom. When May 13 dawned to an eerie silence, there was no clear victor of the previous days' battles. As Rhea states in his epilogue, the end was not yet in sight. The wily Lee and bulldog Grant would soon meet again.Hide synopsis
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Title: The Battles for Spotsylvania Court House and the Road to Yellow Tavern: May 7-12, 1864 Author:Gordon C Rhea ISBN-13:9780807121368 ISBN:0807121363
Title: The Battles for Spotsylvania Court House and the Road to Yellow Tavern, May 7-12, 1864 Author:Gordon C Rhea ISBN-13:9780807121368 ISBN:0807121363
Description:Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall;...Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall; Type: Hard Back First Printing. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket in VERY GOOD Condition. 483 pages with Notes, Bibliography and Index. Ten page illustration section. Maps throughout. Clean, tight and solid book. Front panel has faint whitish areas along top and bottom edges. Internals are very clean, free from any markings, no creases. Clean and bright jacket in mylar cover. Rhea continues his treatment of the Cicil War's clash of titans: Grant's Army of the Potomac verses Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. It is a sequel to his first work, The Battle of the Wilderness, May 5-6, 1864. He examines the maneuvers and battles from May 7th, 1864, when Grant left the Wilderness, through May 12, when his attempt to break Lee's line by frontal assault reached a climax at what is now called the Bloody Angle.
Title: The Battles for Spotsylvania Court House and the Road to Yellow Travern May 7-12, 1864 Author:Gordon C Rhea ISBN-13:9780807121368 ISBN:0807121363
Description:NF/NF; Hardback in Near Fine condition with Near Fine dust...NF/NF; Hardback in Near Fine condition with Near Fine dust jacket. 0807121363. 8vo 8"-9" tall; 483 pages.
Title: The Battles for Spotsylvania Court House and the Road to Yellow Tavern May 7-12, 1864 Author:Gordon C Rhea ISBN-13:9780807121368 ISBN:0807121363
Title: The Battles for Spotsylvania Court House and the Road to Yellow Tavern May 7-12, 1864 Author:Gordon C Rhea ISBN-13:9780807121368 ISBN:0807121363
Description:LSU, 1997, 1st prtg., hardcover, near fine in near fine dj,...LSU, 1997, 1st prtg., hardcover, near fine in near fine dj, civil war, blm50.
