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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
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:483 pages. Hardcover with dustjacket. Like New. UNITED STATES...483 pages. Hardcover with dustjacket. Like New. UNITED STATES CIVIL WAR. The second volume in Gordon C. Rhea's peerless five-book series on the Civil War's 1864 Overland Campaign abounds with Rhea's signature detail, innovative analysis, and riveting prose. 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 by frontal assault reached a chilling climax at what is now called the Bloody Angle. Drawing exhaustively upon previously untapped materials, Rhea challenges conventional wisdom about this violent clash of titans to construct the ultimate account of Grant and Lee at Spotsylvania. Gordon C. Rhea is also the author of The Battle of the Wilderness, May 5-6, 1864; To the North Anna River: Grant and Lee, May 13-25, 1864, winner of the Fletcher Pratt Literary Award; Cold Harbor: Grant and Lee, May 26-June 3, 1864, winner of the Austin Civil War Round Table's Laney Prize, and Carrying the Flag: The Story of Private Charles Whilden, the Confederacy's Most Unlikely Hero. He lives in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, and in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina, with his wife and two sons. Includes an Index. (Key Words: Battles, Spotsylvania Court House, Virginia, Military, United States Civil War, Gordon C. Rhea, Jeb Stuart, Major General Horatio G. Wright, Battle of the Wilderness, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, Weapons, Union Cavalry, Major General Philip H. Sheridan, Major Washington A. Roebling, Po River, Prisoners of War, Colonel Nelson A. Miles, Gershom Mott, Major General George C. Meade, William Mahone, Lunsford L. Lomax, Laurel Hill, Benjamin G. Humphreys, Edward Allegheny Johns, Major General Winfield Scott Hancock, Charles Griffin, Richard S. Ewell, John B. Gordon, Major General Jubal A. Early, George A. Custer, Confederate Casualties, Cyrus B. Comstock, Major General Ambrose E. Burnside, David B. Birney, Francis C. Barlow, Army of Northern Virginia, Army of the Potomac).
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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
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