Not War but Murder: Cold Harbor 1864 - Hardcover

Furgurson, Ernest B.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679455175 ISBN 13: 9780679455172

Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2000

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Book by Furgurson Ernest B

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Chronicles the bloody Battle of Cold Harbor, revealing Northern flaws and politics that led to Grant's worst defeat, private truces among soldiers, and the beginnings of trench warfare as a military tactic.

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ng of Friday, June 3, 1864, Generals Ulysses S. Grant and George G. Meade brought their overland campaign against Richmond to its climax in an all-out assault on Robert E. Lee's entrenched Rebels at Cold Harbor, less than ten miles outside the Confederate capital. The result was outright slaughter--Grant's worst defeat, and Lee's last great victory. Though Grant tried afterward to forget the battle, and historians have often misunderstood its importance, Cold Harbor remains what Bruce Catton called "one of the hard and terrible names of the Civil War, perhaps the most terrible one of all."

Now Ernest Furgurson, an eloquent narrator and analyst of the war, tells the harrowing story of this pivotal conflict. Like his earlier account of the Battle of Chancellorsville, his latest work is rich in detail and revealing anecdotes: Federal generals consume a champagne lunch while more than a thousand of their wounded lie untended on the field. The Confederate Congress votes itself a 100

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• Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0679455175
• ISBN 13: 9780679455172
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 328