The Battle of Glendale

Posted on 07 December 2018 by Jim Stempel

It is commonly accepted that the South could never have won the Civil War By chronicling perhaps the best of the South s limited opportunities to turn the tide, this provocative study argues that Confederate victory was indeed possible On June 30, 1862, at a small Virginia crossroads known as Glendale, Confederate forces under Robert E Lee sliced the retreating Army of the Potomac in two and came remarkably close to destroying their Federal foe Only a string of command miscues on the part of the Confederates and a stunning command failure by Stonewall Jackson enabled the Union army to escape a defeat that day, one that may well have vaulted the South to its independence Never before or after would the Confederacy come as close to transforming American history as it did at the Battle of Glendale. Download The Battle of Glendale by Jim Stempel – kino-fada.fr This is another one of those books that I would probably give 3.5 stars to It has some maps, and it does a fairly decent job of telling the story of the battle although it jumps around quite a bit, making itdifficult to envision what the various commands are trying to accomplish The author does an adequate job of explaining the major failings of Jackson, Huger he of the road building fiasco , and Holmes Of these, Jackson s mistakes are almost incomprehensible and costly The other two This is another one of those books that I would probably give 3.5 stars to It has some maps, and it does a fairly decent job of telling the story of the battle although it jumps around quite a bit, making itdifficult to envision what the various commands are trying to accomplish The author does an adequate job of explaining the major failings of Jackson, Huger he of the road building fiasco , and Holmes Of these, Jackson s mistakes are almost incomprehensible and costly The other two paid for their mistakes by being transferred after Malvern Hill.The Union Army also made some mistakes, but these are mainly laid at the feet of George McClellan, who virtually abrogated his command responsibilities during the latter part of the Seven Days campaign The last chapter summarizes the failures of both Lee and McClellan, and tries to defend Stempel s view that the Confederacy could have won the war if they had won at Glendale Somehow his ar...

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07 December 2018

Jim Stempel