Most people still view the final, bloody confrontation between Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee as a relentless grinding away of the Army of Northern Virginia in a continuous battle of attrition, attributing Grant's victory not to his generalship but to his overwhelming superiority in numbers. General Andrew A. Humphreys (1810–1883), chief of staff of the Army of the Potomac and later the fiery commander of the Second Corps, provides readers with a far more enlightened understanding in The Virginia Campaign, 1864 and 1865. Humphreys was known for his high military scholarship, conspicuous courage, and remarkable coolness in combat. Joshua Chamberlain hailed him as "the accomplished, heroic soldier, the noble and modest man."In The Virginia Campaign, Humphreys examines the strategy, battles, and consequences from the detached perspective of a historian intimately acquainted with his material. Especially valuable is his clear dissection of alternative plans of campaign. For readers seeking concise accounts of, and insightful analyses into, the battles of the Wilderness, Spottsylvania Court House, and Cold Harbor, the siege of Petersburg, the capture of Richmond, and the surrender of Lee's army, this volume in the landmark Campaigns of the Civil War series more than fulfills the requirements.
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Andrew A. Humphreys was Brigadier-General, Chief of Engineers, and Brevet Major-General U.S.A.; Chief of Staff, Army of the Potomac, and Commander of the Second Corps, US Army.
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If you enjoy the minute details and the intricacies of troop movements then this book is the one for you. I would like to have read more about Gen. Humphreys himself but I'll read another book for that.
Facinating info on where everyone was or thought to be during this campaign.
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IN the Spring of 1864 the Army of the Potomac lay be the Rapidan and the Rappahannock. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
available force present, ponton bridge, intrenched picket line, advanced intrenchments, ponton train, consolidated morning report, infantry parapets, colored division, duty equipped, regimental reports, intrenched line, tabular statement, second brigade, plank road, reserve artillery, telegraph road, official diary, third brigade, musketry fire Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Court House, General Meade, General Hancock, General Lee, General Grant, Sixth Corps, Army of the Potomac, White Oak, Ninth Corps, General Burnside, General Wright, General Butler, Hatcher's Run, Cold Harbor, Shady Grove, Five Forks, General Smith, General Early, General Ord, Weldon Railroad, City Point, General Beauregard, General Humphreys, General Wilson, General Birney New!
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IN the Spring of 1864 the Army of the Potomac lay be the Rapidan and the Rappahannock. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
available force present, ponton bridge, intrenched picket line, advanced intrenchments, ponton train, consolidated morning report, infantry parapets, colored division, duty equipped, regimental reports, intrenched line, tabular statement, second brigade, plank road, reserve artillery, telegraph road, official diary, third brigade, musketry fire Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Court House, General Meade, General Hancock, General Lee, General Grant, Sixth Corps, Army of the Potomac, White Oak, Ninth Corps, General Burnside, General Wright, General Butler, Hatcher's Run, Cold Harbor, Shady Grove, Five Forks, General Smith, General Early, General Ord, Weldon Railroad, City Point, General Beauregard, General Humphreys, General Wilson, General Birney New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume I (Rise & Fall of the Confederate Government) by Jefferson Davis on page 151, and page 393
- General James Longstreet: The Confederacy's Most Controversial Soldier by Jeffry D. Wert in Back Matter
- The Political Education of Henry Adams by Brooks D. Simpson in Back Cover
- Battle of the Wilderness by M. Schaff in Front Matter
- Let Us Have Peace: Ulysses S. Grant and the Politics of War and Reconstruction, 1861-1868 by Brooks D. Simpson in Back Cover
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