Beschreibung
Fine condition brown boards, brown spine, and gold spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped illustrated dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by Ernest B. Furgurson; Author Dedication; List of Maps; Preface; Prologue: The Circumstances of the Case; Epilogue: Dust to Kindly Dust; Appendix 1: Appendix 2; Notes; Sources; Index and A Note About the Author. Illustrated with a section of black-and-white photographic plates plus various map drawings interspersed throughout the volume. "What a book - nothing like it in Civil War literature - so searing, so unblinkingly realistic in rendering an unforgettable portaint of this horrible battle. The resourceful research made it inevitable that, in this writer's hands, we should see Cold Harbor as no one - especially participants - could possibly have seen it. Mr. Furgurson is a most important interpreter of the Civil War, and here he ignites a backfire against modern seers who would trivialize the vast, complex struggle as a mere incident in the Civil Rights movement." - Burke Davis, author. ". the first book-length account of the battle of Cold Harbor. Mr. Furgurson draws on impressive skills as a journalist and historian to bring the bloody tale alive. Under his pen, the relentless march of events culminating in General Grant's ill-conceived assault on June 3, 1864, against General Lee's entrenchments has the immediacy of today's news." - Gordon C. Rhea, author. ". [Furgurson] weaves an exciting, informed, and thought-provoking narrative." - Edwin C. Bearss, Historian Emeritus, National Park Service. "On the morning of Friday, Jun 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 percent pay raise while bread prices skyrocket in the south. An angry Union surgeon saws off the leg of a malingerer. Yankee and Rebel soldiers, slipping between the lines after dark to rescue the wounded, find themselves in the same hole and negotiate a private truce. Furgurson explores the minds of both privates and commanders, showing how friction between the overconfident Grant and the irascible Meade proved disastrous; how Lee, with fewer than half as many troops as Meade, repeatedly outmaneuvered Union forces; and how Northern election-year politics influenced Grant's strategy, pressing him to try to win the war with one final head-on attack. Cold Harbor was a watershed moment of the Civil War. After Grant's defeat, the struggle dragged on; the war of maneuver became a war of siege, and stand-up attack gave way to trench warfare - tactics that would become familiar in France half a century later. Above all, Cold Harbor was the most uselessly bloody, one-sided battle of the war, whose terrible human cost is captured in one chilling diary entry, scrawled by a mortally wounded soldier: "June 3, Cold Harbor. I was killed." - from the inner front jacket flap. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 007402
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Bibliografische Details
Titel: Not War But Murder: Cold Harbor 1864 [FIRST ...
Verlag: Alfred A. Knopf, New York
Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
Einband: Hardcover
Illustrator: Skoch, George
Zustand: Fine
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine
Auflage: 1st Edition
