The Sword of Lincoln: The Army of the Potomac

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Simon and Schuster, 6. apr. 2005 - 576 strani
The Sword of Lincoln is the first authoritative, accessible, single-volume history of the Army of the Potomac from a renowned Civil War historian.

From Bull Run to Gettysburg to Appomattox, the Army of the Potomac repeatedly fought -- and eventually defeated -- Robert E. Lee and his Army of Northern Virginia. Jeffry D. Wert, one of our finest Civil War historians, brings to life the battles, the generals, and the common soldiers who fought for the Union and ultimately prevailed. The Army of the Potomac endured a string of losses under a succession of flawed commanders -- McClellan, Burnside, and Hooker -- until at Gettysburg it won a decisive battle under a new commander, General George Meade. Within a year the Army of the Potomac would come under the overall leadership of the Union's new general-in-chief, Ulysses S. Grant. Under Grant the army would finally trap and defeat Lee and his forces.

Wert's history draws on letters and diaries, some previously unpublished, to show us what army life was like. Throughout the book Wert shows how Lincoln carefully monitored the operations of the Army of the Potomac, learning as the war progressed, until he found in Grant the commander he'd long sought.

Perceptive in its analysis and compellingly written, The Sword of Lincoln is the finest modern account of the army that was central to the Civil War.

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Chapter One Things Look Very Mutch Like War
1
Chapter Two Bloody Sabbath at Bull Run
16
Chapter Three An Army Born
32
Chapter Four To the Peninsula
52
Chapter Five Along the Chickahominy
74
Chapter Six If We Were Defeated the Army and the Country Would Be Lost
98
Chapter Seven McClellan Has the Army with Him
126
Chapter Eight Behold a Pale Horse
142
Chapter Twelve Big Fight Some Wears Ahead
259
Chapter Thirteen An Army of Lions
274
Chapter Fourteen Virginia Interlude
310
Chapter Fifteen This War Is Horrid
333
Chapter Sixteen A Sit Down Before the Wall of Petersburg
368
Chapter Seventeen I Never Seen a Crazier Set of Fellows
392
Abbreviations
417
Notes
421

Chapter Nine The Armys Saddest Hour
174
Chapter Ten Winter of Transition
205
Chapter Eleven God Almighty Could Not Prevent Me from Winning a Victory
231
Bibliography
497
Index
535
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Jeffry D. Wert is the author of eight previous books on Civil War topics, most recently Cavalryman of the Lost Cause and The Sword of Lincoln. His articles and essays on the Civil War have appeared in many publications, including Civil War Times Illustrated, American History Illustrated, and Blue and Gray. A former history teacher at Penns Valley High School, he lives in Centre Hall, Pennsylvania, slightly more than one hour from the battlefield at Gettysburg.

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