The Wilderness Campaign

by Steere, Edward

• ISBN13: 9780811718905
• ISBN10: 0811718905
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1994-04-01
• Publisher: Stackpole Books

Summary

'A painstaking, thorough, and revealing study of one of the Civil War's most important campaigns. It throws much new and valuable light on the logistics and on the generalship of Grant and Lee.'Bell I. Wiley, author of The Life of Billy Yank, The Life of Johnny Reb, and Confederate Women

Table of Contents

List of Maps	ix
Foreword	xi
Introduction	xv
The Adversaries	1	(18)
The Federal Plan-Operation Wilderness	19	(22)
Lee's Plan-Operation Rapidan	41	(6)
Into the Wilderness	47	(26)
Lee Maneuvers for Position	73	(15)
Meade Suspends March to Deployment	88	(16)
Meade Withholds His Blow	104	(15)
Grant Abandons Movement Toward Lee's Right	119	(19)
Lee Accepts Grant's Offer of Battle	138	(11)
Griffin Shakes Ewell's Line	149	(17)
The V Corps Attack-Wadsworth Is Ambushed	166	(18)
Grant Strives to Mount a General Attack	184	(13)
Hancock Assaults the Plank Road Ridge	197	(22)
Hancock Continues the Attack	219	(24)
Sedgwick's Attack	243	(16)
Misadventures of Sheridan's Cavalry	259	(22)
Grant Attempts a Grand Assault	281	(22)
Lee at Bay	303	(16)
Grant Assails Lee's Line	319	(20)
Longstreet Stops Hancock	339	(18)
Hancock Tries to Revive His Attack	357	(20)
Sheridan Takes a Hand	377	(10)
Longstreet Demolishes Birney's Column	387	(24)
Lee Launches Last Grand Assault	411	(20)
Darkness Stays Gordon's Attack	431	(24)
Grant and Lee	455	(12)
Appendix A Tables of Organization	467	(10)
Appendix B Bibliography	477	(35)
Index	512