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Cold Harbor : Grant and Lee, May 26-June 3 1864 by Gordon C. Rhea (2002, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherLSU Press

ISBN-100807128031

ISBN-139780807128039

eBay Product ID (ePID)2298341

Product Key Features

Book TitleCold Harbor : Grant and Lee, May 26-June 3 1864

Number of Pages554 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicMilitary / United States, United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)

Publication Year2002

IllustratorYes

GenreHistory

AuthorGordon C. Rhea

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.8 in

Item Weight33.2 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2002-006017

Dewey Edition21

Dewey Decimal973.7/36

SynopsisIn 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.

LC Classification NumberE476.52.R475 2002