Counter-thrust: From the Peninsula to the AntietamU of Nebraska Press, 1. jan. 2007 - 354 strani During the summer of 1862, a Confederate resurgence threatened to turn the tide of the Civil War. When the Union?s earlier multitheater thrust into the South proved to be a strategic overreach, the Confederacy saw its chance to reverse the loss of the Upper South through counteroffensives from the Chesapeake to the Mississippi. Benjamin Franklin Cooling tells this story in Counter-Thrust, recounting in harrowing detail Robert E. Lee?s flouting of his antagonist George B. McClellan?s drive to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond and describing the Confederate hero?s long-dreamt-of offensive to reclaim central and northern Virginia before crossing the Potomac. ø Counter-Thrust also provides a window into the Union?s internal conflict at building a successful military leadership team during this defining period. Cooling shows us Lincoln?s administration in disarray, with relations between the president and field commander McClellan strained to the breaking point. He also shows how the fortunes of war shifted abruptly in the Union?s favor, climaxing at Antietam with the bloodiest single day in American history?and in Lincoln?s decision to announce a preliminary Emancipation Proclamation. Here in all its gritty detail and considerable depth is a critical moment in the unfolding of the Civil War and of American history. |
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Summer Impasse | 1 |
From Tidewater to Cedar Mountain | 32 |
Stonewall and a Virginia Reel | 65 |
Lee and Pope at Second Manassas | 96 |
In the Rain at Chantilly | 138 |
Maryland My Maryland | 165 |
South Mountain and Harpers Ferry | 196 |
The Bridges of the Antietam | 228 |
Opportunities Found and Lost | 259 |
Notes | 295 |
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Counter-Thrust: From the Peninsula to the Antietam Benjamin Franklin Cooling (III) Omejen predogled - 2020 |
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