Название: The Petersburg and Appomattox Campaigns 1864-1865 (The U.S. Army Campaigns of the Civil War)
Издательство: Center of Military History
Год: 2015
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 72
Язык: English
Размер: 5.1 MB
By mid-June 1864, Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, commander of all United States armies fighting to defeat the Confederate rebellion, faced a strategic dilemma at his headquarters near Cold Harbor, Virginia. Under his close control, the Union Army of the Potomac led by Maj. Gen. George G. Meade had just battled 66,000 rebels of General Robert E. Lee’s formidable Army of Northern Virginia in a bloody, month-long campaign. Beginning on 4 May, when Meade’s 100,000 troops had marched south across the Rapidan River west of Fredericksburg, the opposing armies had been in almost constant contact...
