Command Conflicts in Grant's Overland Campaign

Command Conflicts in Grant's Overland Campaign
Author: Diane Monroe Smith
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2012-12-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 1476600953

This book follows the men of the 5th Corps and the Army of the Potomac through the Wilderness, Spotsylvania and Cold Harbor, with the army condemned to moving blindly through enemy territory without the benefit of cavalry scouting or screening. It considers the lost opportunities of June 1864, when Grant's masterly movement of the Army of the Potomac across the James to confront the enemy at Petersburg should have ended in victory and the fall of Richmond. Bungling and complacency doomed the attacks on Petersburg's fortifications, and instead of victory, the battered Federals faced a drawn-out siege, and another 10 months of war. Finally, the author considers what happened to a number of the prominent Federal participants in the Overland Campaign during the last year of the war and after. Many of those who lied and cheated their way to the top became government leaders and the authors of policy for years to come.

Washington Roebling's Civil War

Washington Roebling's Civil War
Author: Diane Monroe Smith
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 461
Release: 2019-07-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0811767825

Washington Roebling is well known as the man who supervised construction of the Brooklyn Bridge. His path to overseeing that monumental task began during the Civil War. In addition to his brave, dramatic actions at Gettysburg, his Civil War service was remarkable: artilleryman, bridge builder, scout, balloonist, mapmaker, engineer, and staff officer. His story reveals much about Gettysburg but also about Civil War intelligence and engineering and the politics and infighting within the Army of the Potomac’s high command. Roebling’s service—leadership, engineering, decision-making, and managing personalities and politics—prepared him well for overseeing the Brooklyn Bridge.

The 2nd Maine Cavalry in the Civil War

The 2nd Maine Cavalry in the Civil War
Author: Ned Smith
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2014-09-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 078647968X

This book follows the 2nd Maine Cavalry from their muster in the late winter of 1863 through their action against Confederate forces in Louisiana, Florida and Alabama. While giving the details of the many scouting expeditions, raids and battles in which the regiment participated, it also includes the more personal stories of several of the young soldiers involved. In addition, a complete regimental roster gives details of enlistment, illness, death from various causes, promotions, demotions, etc.

Command Conflicts in Grant's Overland Campaign

Command Conflicts in Grant's Overland Campaign
Author: Diane Monroe Smith
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2012-12-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 0786468173

This book follows the men of the 5th Corps and the Army of the Potomac through the Wilderness, Spotsylvania and Cold Harbor, with the army condemned to moving blindly through enemy territory without the benefit of cavalry scouting or screening. It considers the lost opportunities of June 1864, when Grant's masterly movement of the Army of the Potomac across the James to confront the enemy at Petersburg should have ended in victory and the fall of Richmond. Bungling and complacency doomed the attacks on Petersburg's fortifications, and instead of victory, the battered Federals faced a drawn-out siege, and another 10 months of war. Finally, the author considers what happened to a number of the prominent Federal participants in the Overland Campaign during the last year of the war and after. Many of those who lied and cheated their way to the top became government leaders and the authors of policy for years to come.

Grant's Lieutenants

Grant's Lieutenants
Author: Steven E. Woodworth
Publisher:
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2008
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

The second of two volumes critiquing the generals who served under Ulysses Grant, focusing on their working relationships with Grant and assessing their actual performance commanding Union troops during the final two years of the war.

In Memoriam

In Memoriam
Author: New York (State). Monuments Commission for the Battlefields of Gettysburg, Chattanooga and Antietam
Publisher:
Total Pages: 214
Release: 1918
Genre: Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863
ISBN: