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Grant's River Campaign

Author : Jack H. Lepa
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786474777
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Grant's River Campaign written by Jack H. Lepa and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-11-08 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Tennessee in the early months of 1862, Ulysses S. Grant captured forts Henry and Donelson and opened the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers to military and commercial shipping. In April the first of many terrible battles of the Civil War was fought near Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River around a decrepit meeting-house known as Shiloh. This costly victory established Federal control over much of central Tennessee. These early Union victories gave the Federals control of two of the major rivers in the region--the highways of the period--opening large areas of the Confederacy to Federal invasion. Other important results were the end of the Confederate threat to control Kentucky and possibly close off the Ohio River. These victories also were a major factor in forcing the abandonment of a key Confederate fort on the Mississippi River at Columbus, Kentucky. This book describes not only the actual fighting that took place but how important political and economic factors influenced the overall military strategy in the region.

Grant's Campaigns of 1864 and 1865

Author : Charles Francis Atkinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Grant's Campaigns of 1864 and 1865 written by Charles Francis Atkinson and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Campaigning with Grant

Author : Horace Porter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Campaigning with Grant written by Horace Porter and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally printed in 1897, this work provides an eyewitness account to two military efforts which lead to the defeat of the Confederacy--the breaking of the siege at Chatanooga, and the battle at Appomattox. Porter (a brigadier general in the Union army) also offers a portrait of Grant, detailing his daily acts, his personal traits and habits, and the motives that inspired him. Numerous maps and illustrations are included. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

Grant's Left Hook

Author : Sean Chick
Publisher : Savas Beatie
ISBN 13 : 1611214394
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book Grant's Left Hook written by Sean Chick and published by Savas Beatie. This book was released on 2021-07-21 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the series of American Civil War battles fought at a town outside of Richmond, Virginia. Robert E. Lee feared the day the Union army would return up the James River and invest the Confederate capital of Richmond. In the spring of 1864, Ulysses Grant, looking for a way to weaken Lee, was about to exploit the Confederate commander’s greatest fear and weakness. After two years of futile offensives in Virginia, the Union commander set the stage for a campaign that could decide the war. Grant sent the 38,000-man Army of the James to Bermuda Hundred, to threaten and possibly take Richmond, or at least pin down troops that could reinforce Lee. Jefferson Davis, in desperate need of a capable commander, turned to the Confederacy’s first hero: Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard. Butler’s 1862 occupation of New Orleans had infuriated the South, but no one more than Beauregard, a New Orleans native. This campaign would be personal. In the hot weeks of May 1864, Butler and Beauregard fought a series of skirmishes and battles to decide the fate of Richmond and Lee’s army. Historian Sean Michael Chick analyzes and explains the plans, events, and repercussions of the Bermuda Hundred Campaign in Grant’s Left Hook: The Bermuda Hundred Campaign, May 5-June 7, 1864. The book contains hundreds of photographs, new maps, and a fresh consideration of Grant’s Virginia strategy and the generalship of Butler and Beauregard. The book is also filled with anecdotes and impressions from the rank and file who wore blue and gray. Praise for Grant’s Left Hook “A superb installment . . . one of the best books in the ECW series (easily rating among the top handful in this reviewer’s estimation). Sean Chick’s Grant’s Left Hook is highly recommended reading.” —Civil War Books and Authors “An excellent, very informative book about one of the least understood campaigns of the Civil War . . . also quite readable, and is highly recommended for anyone with an interest in the great conflict, and particularly for those who like tramping across battlefields.” —The NYMAS Review

History of Grant's Campaign for the Capture of Richmond (1864-1865)

Author : John Cannon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book History of Grant's Campaign for the Capture of Richmond (1864-1865) written by John Cannon and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Grant's Campaign in Virginia, May 1-June 30, 1864, Including the Operations in the Shenandoah Valley and on the River James. [With Maps and Plans.].

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Author : John Henry ANDERSON (Barrister-at-Law.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (752 download)

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Grant's Campaign in Virginia, May 1-June 30, 1864 Including the Operations of the Shenandoah Valley and on the River James

Author : John H. Anderson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grant's Campaign in Virginia, May 1-June 30, 1864 Including the Operations of the Shenandoah Valley and on the River James written by John H. Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Grant Moves South

Author : Bruce Catton
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504024206
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Grant Moves South written by Bruce Catton and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-11-03 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Pulitzer Prize–winning historian looks at the complex, controversial Union commander who ensured the Confederacy’s downfall in the Civil War. In this New York Times bestseller, preeminent Civil War historian Bruce Catton narrows his focus on commander Ulysses S. Grant, whose bold tactics and relentless dedication to the Union ultimately ensured a Northern victory in the nation’s bloodiest conflict. While a succession of Union generals—from McClellan to Burnside to Hooker to Meade—were losing battles and sacrificing troops due to ego, egregious errors, and incompetence, an unassuming Federal Army commander was excelling in the Western theater of operations. Though unskilled in military power politics and disregarded by his peers, Colonel Grant, commander of the Twenty-First Illinois Volunteer Infantry, was proving to be an unstoppable force. He won victory after victory at Belmont, Fort Henry, and Fort Donelson, while brilliantly avoiding near-catastrophe and ultimately triumphing at Shiloh. And Grant’s bold maneuvers at Vicksburg would cost the Confederacy its invaluable lifeline: the Mississippi River. But destiny and President Lincoln had even loftier plans for Grant, placing nothing less than the future of an entire nation in the capable hands of the North’s most valuable military leader. Based in large part on military communiqués, personal eyewitness accounts, and Grant’s own writings, Catton’s extraordinary history offers readers an insightful look at arguably the most innovative Civil War battlefield strategist, unmatched by even the South’s legendary Robert E. Lee.

Grant at Vicksburg

Author : Michael B. Ballard
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 0809332418
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Grant at Vicksburg written by Michael B. Ballard and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On May 22, 1863, after two failed attempts to take the city of Vicksburg by assault, Major General Ulysses S. Grant declared in a letter to the commander of the Union fleet on the Mississippi River that “the nature of the ground about Vicksburg is such that it can only be taken by a siege.” The 47-day siege of Vicksburg orchestrated by Grant resulted in the eventual surrender of the city and fulfilled a major strategic goal for the Union: command of the Mississippi River for the remainder of the war. In this revealing volume, Michael B. Ballard offers the first in-depth exploration of Grant’s thoughts and actions during this critical operation, providing a never-before-seen portrait of the general in the midst of one of his most notable achievements. After an overview of Grant’s early Civil War career from his first battle through the early stages of the attacks on Vicksburg, Ballard describes in detail how Grant conducted the siege, examining his military decisions, placement of troops, strategy and tactics, engineering objectives, and relationships with other officers. Grant’s worried obsession with a perceived danger of a rear attack by Joseph Johnston’s Confederate army, Ballard shows, affected his decision making, and shows how threats of Confederate action occupied more of Grant’s time than did the siege itself. In addition, Ballard soundly dispels a false story about Grant’s alleged drinking binge early in the siege that has been taken as truthful by many historians, examines how racism in Grant’s army impacted the lives of freed black people and slaves in the Vicksburg area, and explores Grant’s strained relationship with John McClernand, a politically appointed general from Illinois. The book concludes with the surrender of Vicksburg on July 4, 1863, the expulsion of Johnston and his army from the region, and demonstrates the impact of the siege on the outcome on the short and long-terms of Grant’s military career. By analyzing Grant’s personality during the siege and how he dealt with myriad issues as both a general and an administrator, Grant at Vicksburg offers a revealing rendering of the legendary general.

Grant's Campaigns of 1864 and 1865

Author : Christopher Thomas Atkinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Grant's Campaigns of 1864 and 1865 written by Christopher Thomas Atkinson and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Decision Was Always My Own

Author : Timothy B Smith
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 0809336677
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book The Decision Was Always My Own written by Timothy B Smith and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2018-06-20 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Vicksburg Campaign, argues Timothy B. Smith, is the showcase of Ulysses S. Grant’s military genius. From October 1862 to July 1863, for nearly nine months, Grant tried repeatedly to capture the Confederate river city. He maneuvered and adapted numerous times, reacting to events and enemy movements with great skill and finesse as the lengthy campaign played out on a huge chessboard, dwarfing operations in the east. Grant’s final, daring move allowed him to land an army in Mississippi and fight his way to the gates of Vicksburg. He captured the Confederate garrison and city on July 4, 1863, opening the Mississippi River for the Union. Showing how and why Grant became such a successful general, Smith presents a fast-paced reexamination of the commander and the campaign. His fresh analysis of Grant’s decision-making process during the Vicksburg maneuvers, battles, and siege details the course of campaigning on military, political, administrative, and personal levels. The narrative is organized around Grant’s eight key decisions: to begin operations against Vicksburg, to place himself in personal charge of the campaign, to begin active operations around the city, to sweep toward Vicksburg from the south, to march east of Vicksburg and cut the railroad before attacking, to assault Vicksburg twice in an attempt to end the campaign quickly, to lay siege after the assaults had failed, and to parole the surrendered Confederate garrison rather than send the Southern soldiers to prison camps. The successful military campaign also required Grant to master political efforts, including handling Lincoln’s impatience and dealing with the troublesome political general John A. McClernand. Further, he had to juggle administrative work with military decision making. Grant was more than a military genius, however; he was also a husband and a father, and Smith shows how Grant’s family was a part of everything he did. Grant’s nontraditional choices went against the accepted theories of war, supply, and operations as well as against the chief thinkers of the day, such as Henry Halleck, Grant’s superior. Yet Grant pulled off the victory in compelling fashion. In the first in-depth examination in decades, Smith shows how Grant’s decisions created and won the Civil War’s most brilliant, complex, decisive, and lengthy campaign.

Vicksburg

Author : Donald L. Miller
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451641397
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Vicksburg written by Donald L. Miller and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Civil War Round Table of New York’s Fletcher Pratt Literary Award Winner of the Austin Civil War Round Table’s Daniel M. & Marilyn W. Laney Book Prize Winner of an Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Award “A superb account” (The Wall Street Journal) of the longest and most decisive military campaign of the Civil War in Vicksburg, Mississippi, which opened the Mississippi River, split the Confederacy, freed tens of thousands of slaves, and made Ulysses S. Grant the most important general of the war. Vicksburg, Mississippi, was the last stronghold of the Confederacy on the Mississippi River. It prevented the Union from using the river for shipping between the Union-controlled Midwest and New Orleans and the Gulf of Mexico. The Union navy tried to take Vicksburg, which sat on a high bluff overlooking the river, but couldn’t do it. It took Grant’s army and Admiral David Porter’s navy to successfully invade Mississippi and lay siege to Vicksburg, forcing the city to surrender. In this “elegant…enlightening…well-researched and well-told” (Publishers Weekly) work, Donald L. Miller tells the full story of this year-long campaign to win the city “with probing intelligence and irresistible passion” (Booklist). He brings to life all the drama, characters, and significance of Vicksburg, a historic moment that rivals any war story in history. In the course of the campaign, tens of thousands of slaves fled to the Union lines, where more than twenty thousand became soldiers, while others seized the plantations they had been forced to work on, destroying the economy of a large part of Mississippi and creating a social revolution. With Vicksburg “Miller has produced a model work that ties together military and social history” (Civil War Times). Vicksburg solidified Grant’s reputation as the Union’s most capable general. Today no general would ever be permitted to fail as often as Grant did, but ultimately he succeeded in what he himself called the most important battle of the war—the one that all but sealed the fate of the Confederacy.

Grant's Campaign in Virginia, May 1-June 30, 1864 Including the Operations of the Shenandoah Valley and On the River James

Author : John H Anderson
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781020056369
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (563 download)

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Download or read book Grant's Campaign in Virginia, May 1-June 30, 1864 Including the Operations of the Shenandoah Valley and On the River James written by John H Anderson and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed account of General Grant's campaign in Virginia during May 1-June 30 1864, which includes the Shenandoah Valley and the River James. This book provides an in-depth analysis of the various military strategies employed by Grant during this period, along with the challenges he faced and his ultimate triumphs. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Grant and Sherman

Author : J. T. Headley
Publisher : Gale Cengage Learning
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 650 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Grant and Sherman written by J. T. Headley and published by Gale Cengage Learning. This book was released on 1865 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

No Backward Step

Author : Charles G. Siegel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book No Backward Step written by Charles G. Siegel and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reader is taken along the bloody routes during the final year of the Civil War visiting more than 200 sites. The book is organized so that the reader has the option of touring the entire campaign or a single battle.

Grant's Campaign in Virginia, 1864

Author : George Henry Vaughan-Sawyer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grant's Campaign in Virginia, 1864 written by George Henry Vaughan-Sawyer and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

River of Death--The Chickamauga Campaign

Author : William Glenn Robertson
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469643138
Total Pages : 697 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book River of Death--The Chickamauga Campaign written by William Glenn Robertson and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2018-10-03 with total page 697 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Battle of Chickamauga was the third bloodiest of the American Civil War and the only major Confederate victory in the conflict's western theater. It pitted Braxton Bragg's Army of Tennessee against William S. Rosecrans's Army of the Cumberland and resulted in more than 34,500 casualties. In this first volume of an authoritative two-volume history of the Chickamauga Campaign, William Glenn Robertson provides a richly detailed narrative of military operations in southeastern and eastern Tennessee as two armies prepared to meet along the "River of Death." Robertson tracks the two opposing armies from July 1863 through Bragg's strategic decision to abandon Chattanooga on September 9. Drawing on all relevant primary and secondary sources, Robertson devotes special attention to the personalities and thinking of the opposing generals and their staffs. He also sheds new light on the role of railroads on operations in these landlocked battlegrounds, as well as the intelligence gathered and used by both sides. Delving deep into the strategic machinations, maneuvers, and smaller clashes that led to the bloody events of September 19@–20, 1863, Robertson reveals that the road to Chickamauga was as consequential as the unfolding of the battle itself.