Glory Enough for All

by Wittenberg, Eric J.; Rhea, Gordon C.

• ISBN13: 9781574883534
• ISBN10: 1574883534
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-06-01
• Publisher: Potomac Books Inc

Summary

After the ferocious fighting at Cold Harbor, Virginia, in June 1864, Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant ordered his cavalry, commanded by Maj. Gen. Philip H. Sheridan, to distract the Confederate forces opposing the Army of the Potomac. Glory Enough fir All chronicles the battle that resulted when the Confederate cavalry pursued and caught their Union foes at Trevilian Station, Virginia -- perhaps the only truly decisive cavalry battle of the Civil War.

Author Biography

Eric J. Wittenberg is a member of the Trevilian Station Battlefield Foundation and a charter member and past president of the Central Ohio Civil War Roundtable. He lives in Columbus, Ohio

Table of Contents

List of Maps	ix
Foreword	xi
Preface	xvii
The Union and Confederate Cavalry Forces and the Strategy Underlying the June 1864 Trevilian Raid	1	(36)
The Road to Trevilian Station	37	(32)
First Shots: Torbert and Butler Open the Action	69	(28)
Custer's First Last Stand: The Fight for Hampton's Wagons	97	(36)
Union Breakthrough along the Railroad	133	(34)
A Long Night on the Battlefield and a Morning of Destruction along the Virginia Central Railroad	167	(16)
Sheridan Is Repulsed at the Bloody Angle: The Second Day of the Battle of Trevilian Station	183	(32)
Sheridan's Retreat to White House Landing from Trevilian Station	215	(34)
The March from White House Landing to the James River	249	(14)
The Battle of Samaria Church and the End of the Trevilian Raid	263	(38)
An Assessment of the Trevilian Raid and the Battle of Trevilian Station	301	(26)
Epilogue	327	(4)
Appendix A: Order of the Battle	331	(6)
Appendix B: Union Strengths and Losses at the Battle of Trevilian Station, June 11, 1864	337	(4)
Appendix C: Union Strengths and Losses at the Battle of Trevilian Station, June 12, 1864	341	(2)
Appendix D: Confederate Strengths and Losses at the Battle of Trevilian Station	343	(4)
Bibliography	347	(22)
Index	369	(23)
About the Author	392