Plenty of Blame to Go Around: Jeb Stuart’s Controversial Ride to Gettysburg - Softcover

Wittenberg, Eric J.; Petruzzi, David

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ISBN 10: 1611210984 ISBN 13: 9781611210989

Verlag: Savas Beatie, 2011

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Book by Wittenberg Eric Petruzzi J David

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"A fast paced, well told yarn... exhaustively researched... the definitive analysis."--Civil War Times Illustrated "Plenty of Blame to Go Around is a welcome new account of Stuart's fateful ride during the 1863 Pennsylvania campaign. The authors have done heroic labor among the wealth of primary sources bearing on Stuart's activities. Here, then, is Stuart's ride as the troopers on both sides would recognize it--well researched, vividly written, and shrewdly argued. It is, in short, as good an account of the ride as we are likely to get."--Mark Grimsley, author of The Hard Hand of War: Union Military Policy Toward Southern Civilians, 1861-1865 "...the best study of what J.E.B. Stuart did during this campaign and his reasons for doing so. Fair and balanced, it is a necessary read..."--Civil War Courier "..a well detailed history, that no matter what side one might view the ride, it would be a fair objective account...well-researched book on all points clearly and cleverly argued."--Midwest Book Review

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June 1863, and the Gettysburg Campaign is in its opening hours. Harnesses jingled and hooves pounded as Confederate cavalryman James Ewell Brown Stuart leads his three brigades of troopers on a ride that triggers one of the Civil War's most bitter controversies. Instead of finding glory and victory, Stuart reaped stinging criticism and substantial blame for one of the Confederacy's most stunning and unexpected battlefield defeats. Stuart left Virginia acting on Gen. Robert E. Lee's discretionary orders to advance into Maryland and Pennsylvania, where he was to screen Lt. Gen. Richard Ewell's marching infantry corps and report on enemy activity. The mission jumped off its tracks from virtually the moment it began when one unexpected event after another unfolded across Stuart's path. For days, neither Lee nor Stuart had any idea where the other was, and the enemy blocked the horseman's direct route back to the Confederate army, which was advancing nearly blind north into Pennsylvania. By the time Stuart reached Lee on July 2, the armies had unexpectedly collided at Gettysburg and one of the campaign's greatest controversies was born. Did the plumed cavalier disobey Lee's orders by stripping the army of its"eyes and ears?" Was Stuart to blame for the unexpected combat that broke out at Gettysburg on July 1? Authors Wittenberg and Petruzzi, widely recognised for their study and expertise of Civil War cavalry operations, have drawn upon a massive array of primary sources, many heretofore untapped, to fully explore Stuart's ride, its consequences, and the intense debate among participants shortly after the battle, early post-war commentators, and modern scholars.

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• Verlag: Savas Beatie
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1611210984
• ISBN 13: 9781611210989
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 456