In this Book
- Cold Harbor to the Crater: The End of the Overland Campaign
- Book
- 2015
- Published by: The University of North Carolina Press
- Series: Military Campaigns of the Civil War
summary
Between the end of May and the beginning of August 1864, Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and Gen. Robert E. Lee oversaw the transition between the Overland campaign—a remarkable saga of maneuvering and brutal combat—and what became a grueling siege of Petersburg that many months later compelled Confederates to abandon Richmond. Although many historians have marked Grant's crossing of the James River on June 12–15 as the close of the Overland campaign, this volume interprets the fighting from Cold Harbor on June 1–3 through the battle of the Crater on July 30 as the last phase of an operation that could have ended without a prolonged siege. The contributors assess the campaign from a variety of perspectives, examining strategy and tactics, the performances of key commanders on each side, the centrality of field fortifications, political repercussions in the United States and the Confederacy, the experiences of civilians caught in the path of the armies, and how the famous battle of the Crater has resonated in historical memory. As a group, the essays highlight the important connections between the home front and the battlefield, showing some of the ways in which military and nonmilitary affairs played off and influenced one another.
Contributors include Keith S. Bohannon, Stephen Cushman, M. Keith Harris, Robert E. L. Krick, Kevin M. Levin, Kathryn Shively Meier, Gordon C. Rhea, and Joan Waugh.
Contributors include Keith S. Bohannon, Stephen Cushman, M. Keith Harris, Robert E. L. Krick, Kevin M. Levin, Kathryn Shively Meier, Gordon C. Rhea, and Joan Waugh.
Table of Contents
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- Introduction
- pp. ix-xvii
- Francis Channing Barlow’s Civil War
- pp. 138-175
- The Battle of the Crater in Recent Fiction
- pp. 283-310
- Bibliographic Essay
- pp. 311-316
- Contributors
- pp. 317-318
Additional Information
ISBN
9781469625355
Related ISBN(s)
9781469625331, 9781469625348, 9798890849090
MARC Record
OCLC
915940838
Pages
360
Launched on MUSE
2015-08-10
Language
English
Open Access
No