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The Army of the Potomac
The Army of the Potomac fought in numerous battles, large and small, during the Civil War.This reference work compiles information from the Official Records to give a complete look at the numbers behind every battle and major campaign the Army of the Potomac participated in.
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Blue-Blooded Cavalryman
An intimate look into the daily life of a cavalry officer serving with the Army of the Potomac In May 1863, eighteen-year-old William Brooke Rawle graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and traded a genteel, cultured life of privilege for service as a cavalry officer.
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Until Antietam
This first-ever biography of Union general Israel Bush Richardson (1815-1862) shows his growth and career from his days as a West Point cadet, through his military service on the frontier and during the Mexican-American War, his short stint as a farmer, and his rapid advancement in the first year of the U.S. Civil War. Richardson sustained a fatal wound at the battle of Antietam and died three weeks later.
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Unfurl Those Colors
Unfurl Those Colors! provides an operational study of
the Army of the Potomac during the pivotal Battle of Antietam on
September 17, 1862, illuminating in details that will fascinate
scholars and armchair generals alike US army commander George B.
McClellan’s command decisions and how those decisions were
carried out in the middle and lower ranks of the Second Army
Corps. Armstrong offers the most comprehensive account yet of the
Second Army Corps’s fight at Antietam, including
Sedgwick’s division in the West Woods and French’s
and Richardson’s divisions at Bloody Land. He offers a
fresh reappraisal of the leadership of Bostonian Edwin V.
“Bull Head” Sumner as the only federal corps
commander who doggedly and accurately carried out
McClellan’s battle plan and effectively directed the battle
on the Federal right. Many esteemed Civil War historians consider
Antietam a watershed moment in the Civil War, a crucial success
after which Abraham Lincoln was emboldened to issue the
Emancipation Proclamation.
Unfurl Those Colors! offers a vital examination of the
operational fabric of the Army of the Potomac’s leadership
and command in one of the most important days in American
history.
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Meade and Lee at Bristoe Station: the problems of command and strategy from Brandy Station to the Buckland Races, August 1 to October 31, 1863
A follow-up volume to Hunt's 'Meade and Lee After Gettysburg', this is a fast-paced, dynamic account of how the Army of Northern Virginia carried the war above the Rappahannock once more in an effort to retrieve the laurels lost in Pennsylvania on the fields of Gettysburg.
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Defeating Lee
Fair Oaks, the Seven Days, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Cold Harbor, Petersburg-the list of significant battles fought by the Second Corps, Army of the Potomac, is a long and distinguished one. This absorbing history of the Second Corps follows the unit's creation and rise to prominence, the battles that earned it a reputation for hard fighting, and the legacy its veterans sought to maintain in the years after the Civil War. More than an account of battles, Defeating Lee gets to the heart of what motivated these men, why they fought so hard, and how they sustained a spirited defense of cause and country long after the guns had fallen silent.
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Chancellorsville and the Germans
Often called Lee's greatest triumph, the battle of Chancellorsville decimated the Union Eleventh Corps, composed of large numbers of German-speaking volunteers. Poorly deployed, the unit was routed by StonewallJackson and became the scapegoat for the Northern defeat, blamed by many on the flightof German immigrant troops. The impact on America's large German community was devastating. But there is much more to the story than that. Drawing for the first time on German-language newspapers, soldiers' letters, memoirs, and regimental records, Christian Keller reconstructs the battle and its aftermath from the German-American perspective, military and civilian. He offers a fascinating window into a misunderstood past, one where the German soldiers' valor has been either minimized or dismissed as cowardly. He critically analyzes the performance of the German regiments and documents the impact of nativism on Anglo-American and German-American reactions-and on German self-perceptions as patriots and Americans. For German-Americans, the ghost of Chancellorsville lingered long, and Keller traces its effects not only on ethnic identity, but also on the dynamics of inclusion andassimilation in American life.
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Opposing the Second Corps at Antietam
With a tally of more than five thousand killed, twenty thousand wounded, and three thousand missing, the Battle of Antietam made September 17, 1862, the deadliest day of combat in American history. In Opposing the Second Corps at Antietam , Antietam scholar Marion V. Armstrong Jr. completes his magisterial study of Antietam begun in Unfurl Those Colors! by examining Robert E. Lee’s leadership at the climactic battle in the Confederate invasion of Union territory.
Eminent Civil War historians consider Antietam the turning point of the war. Hoping to maintain the initiative they had gained at the Second Battle of Bull Run, Confederate leaders looked to a stunning victory on Northern soil to sour Northern sentiment on the war as well as to coax European powers to recognize the fledgling Confederacy. Having examined McClellan’s command and role at Antietam in Unfurl Those Colors! , Armstrong now recounts in riveting detail Lee’s command decisions and their execution in the field, drawing on a superlative collection of first-person accounts by Confederate veterans to narrate the cataclysmic struggle between Lee and McClellan.
Armstrong sets the stage with a lively recap of the political and military events leading up to the early fall of 1862 and foreshadowing the conflagration to come on September 17. Each chapter then traces a critical section of the battle, the fight for the West Woods and the bloody engagement of the Sunken Road. Armstrong augments this collection with an exceptional set of maps, which will be valued by scholars, readers, and visitors to the battlefield. These unique maps delineate troop movements in intervals as brief as fifteen minutes, bringing to life the fluid, mutable lines that characterize the glory and horror of Antietam.
Either together with Unfurl Those Colors! or as a stand-alone account of the Confederate side of the battle, Opposing the Second Corps at Antietam provides the fullest possible understanding of the experience of Confederate soldiers at Antietam.
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