Cold Harbor

Gordon Rhea s gripping fourth volume on the spring 1864 campaign which pitted Ulysses S Grant against Robert E Lee for the first time in the Civil War vividly re creates the battles and maneuvers from the stalemate on the North Anna River through the Cold Harbor offensive Cold Harbor Grant and Lee, May 26 June 3, 1864 showcases Rhea s tenacious research which elicits stunning new facts from the records of a phase oddly ignored or mythologized by historians In clear and profuse tactical detail, Rhea tracks the remarkable events of those nine days, giving 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 Within the pages of Cold Harbor, Rhea separates fact from fiction in a charged, evocative narrative He leaves readers under a moonless sky, with Grant pondering the eastward course of the James River fifteen miles south of the encamped armies. Download Cold Harbor – kino-fada.fr Cold Harbor Grant and Lee, May 26 June3, 1864 is the final volume in Gordon Rhea s brilliant series of four books describing the Overland Campaign of U.S Grant and the Union Army of the Potomac against Robert E Lee s Confederate Army of Northern Virginia during the spring and summer of 1864 This book picks up with the two armies maneuvering from their stand at the North Anna River crossings, and Grant s efforts to continue to sidle south around Lee s right flank and interpose the Union arm Cold Harbor Grant and Lee, May 26 June3, 1864 is the final volume in Gordon Rhea s brilliant series of four books describing the Overland Campaign of U.S Grant and the Union Army of the Potomac against Robert E Lee s Confederate Army of Northern Virginia during the spring and summer of 1864 This book picks up with the two armies maneuvering from their stand at the North Anna River crossings, and Grant s efforts to continue to sidle south around Lee s right flank and interpose the Union army between Lee and Richmond Rhea masterfully describes the movements of the two...The battles at Cold Harbor have generated controversy and error since just about the time the fighting there stopped There is any amount of accepted wisdom about what was really a series of battles, not just one these assumptions can be read in just about any general history of the U.S Civil War that goes into any detail at all about the fighting Some or all of the taken for granted attitudes return return 1 Grant chose to go to Cold Harbor and Lee knew that he was going to do so return The battles at Cold Harbor have generated controversy and error since just about the time the fighting there stopped There is any amount of accepted wisdom about what was really a series of battles, n...Gordon Rhea has written a series of four books, providing a chronicle of the bloody fighting in 1864 as Ulysses Grant headed south and Robert E Lee tried to prevent him from success From the Wilderness to Spotsylvania Court House to the North Anna River to Cold Harbor These four books take us through this sanguinary period, day by day There is no obvious end of one battle and start of the next It was a continuing slugging match between Confederate and Union forces This book begins with Gra Gordon Rhea has written a series of four books, providing a chronicle of the bloody fighting in 1864 as Ulysses Grant headed south and Robert E Lee tried to prevent him from success From the Wilderness to Spotsylvania Court House to the North Anna River to Cold Harbor These four books take us through this sanguinary period, day by day There is no obvious end of one battle and start of the next It was a continui...The fourth and, for now, final volume in Rhea s Overland Campaign series This book covers the disengagement of Grant at North Anna, his crossing of the Pamunkey, the subsequent battles at Totopotomy Creek aka Bethesda Church and various cavalry engagements like Haw s Shop and Ashland , and culminates with the main fighting at Cold Harbor The famous assault on the morning of June 3rd is only about 40 pages out of nearly 400 As with the rest of the series there are good maps, an order of battl The fourth and, for now, final volume in Rhea s Overland Campaign series This book covers the disengagement of Grant at North Anna, his crossing of the Pamunkey, the subsequent battles at Totopotomy Creek aka Bethesda Church and various cavalry engagements like Haw s Shop and Ashland , and culminates with the main fighting at Cold Harbor The famous assault on the morning of June 3rd is only about 40 pages out of nearly 400 As with the rest of the series there are good maps, an order of battle, and copious citations.If you l...Cold Harbor had most of the shortcomings I found in the last Gordon Rhea book I read, which was also part of his four volume Overland Campaign series I don t see much need to retreated them.I found Cold Harbor to be a farinteresting read, though I m still not quite certain why that is I think because my expectations were a littletempered going in this time Also, this is his final book of the series It allows for a sense of finality that didn t leave me wantingI respect th Cold Harbor had most of the shortcomings I found in the last Gordon Rhea book I read, which was also part of his four volume Overland Campaign series I don t see much need to retreated them.I found Cold Harbor to be a farinteresting read, though I m still not quite certain why that is I think because my expectations were a littletempered going in this time Also, this is his final book of the series It allows for a sense of finality that didn t leave me wantingI respect the inherent biases that many writers bring to the Civil War It can be a deeply personal topic, with ideologies that still resonate today I was raised with an education that included both per...Excruciating, as was the battle No matter which side you favor, the insanity of repeated frontal attacks in the American Civil War surely must appall I ve read that West Point trained many commanders on both sides, largely in Napoleonic warfare Meanwhile weapons technology had advanced to outstrip the effectiveness of such training The result was slaughter on a vast scale However, after repeatedly obtaining the same results, why were frontal attacks continued throughout the War Maybe some Excruciating, as was the battle No matter which side you favor, the insanity of repeated frontal attacks in the American Civil War surely must appall I ve read that West Point trained many commanders on both sides, largely in Napoleonic warfare Meanwhile weapons technology had advanced to outstrip the effectiveness of such...This is a very in depth and thoroughly researched book Rhea goes into a wealth of detail about every single maneuver and counter maneuver, tactical decision, reconnaissance, skirmish, and battle involving the two opposing armies, not just during the Battle of Cold Harbor itself, but for the entire previous week leading up to the battle too If you re a Civil War buff or have an interest in military history and tactics, you ll probably enjoy it If you re just curious about the Battle of Cold Ha This is a very in depth and thoroughly researched book Rhea goes into a wealth of detail about every single maneuver and counter maneuver, tactical decision, reconnaissance, skirmish, and batt...Most interesting part of this book was Rhea s debunking that the final grand assault was a complete bloodletting, which is very much the description I was expecting Instead, he points out that many of the statistics of casualt...Gordon Rhea is one of the best Civil War History authors out there No one can take something as complex and complicated as a major civil war battle campaign and make it comprehensible without having to sacrifice det...Weakest of the 4 book in his Overland campaign

• English
• 03 January 2017
Gordon C. Rhea
• Paperback
• 532 pages
• 0807132446
• Gordon C. Rhea
• Cold Harbor