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A Single Grand Victory

The First Campaign and Battle of Manassas

By: Ethan Sepp Rafuse

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A Single Grand Victory

The First Campaign and Battle of Manassas

By: Ethan Sepp Rafuse

This series offers to students of the Civil War, either those continuing or those just beginning their exciting journey into the past, concise overviews of important persons, events, and themes in that remarkable period of America's history."--BOOK JACKET.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0842028765

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9780842028769

Robert E. Lee and the Fall of the Confederacy, 1863-1865

By: Ethan Sepp Rafuse

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Robert E. Lee and the Fall of the Confederacy, 1863-1865

By: Ethan Sepp Rafuse

In this reexamination of the last two years of Lee's storied military career, Ethan S. Rafuse offers a clear, informative, and insightful account of Lee's ultimately unsuccessful struggle to defend the Confederacy against a relentless and determined foe. This book provides a comprehensive, yet concise and entertaining narrative of the battles and campaigns that highlighted this phase of the war and analyzes the battles and Lee's generalship in the context of the steady deterioration of the Confederacy's prospects for victory.

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0742551253

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9780742551251

From the Mountains to the Bay

The War in Virginia, January–May 1862

By: Ethan S. Rafuse

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From the Mountains to the Bay

The War in Virginia, January–May 1862

By: Ethan S. Rafuse

From January to July of 1862, the armies and navies of the Union and Confederacy conducted an incredibly complex and remarkably diverse range of operations in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Under the direction of leaders like Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, George McClellan, Joseph E. Johnston, John Rodgers, Robert E. Lee, Franklin Buchanan, Irvin McDowell, and Louis M. Goldsborough, men of the Union and Confederate armed forces marched over mountains and through shallow valleys, maneuvered on and along great tidal rivers, bridged and waded their tributaries, battled malarial swamps, dug trenches and constructed fortifications, and advanced and retreated in search of operational and tactical advantage. In the course of these operations, the North demonstrated it had learned quite a bit from its setbacks of 1861 and was able to achieve significant operational and tactical success on both land and sea. This enabled Union arms to bring a considerable portion of Virginia under Federal control—in some cases temporarily and in others permanently. Indeed, at points during the spring and early summer of 1862, it appeared the North just might succeed in bringing about the defeat of the rebellion before the year was out. A sweeping study of the operations on land and sea, From the Mountains to the Bay is the only modern scholarly work that looks at the operations that took place in Virginia in early 1862, from the Romney Campaign that opened the year to the naval engagement between the Monitor and Merrimac to the movements and engagements fought by Union and Confederate forces in the Shenandoah Valley, on the York-James Peninsula, and in northern Virginia, as a single, comprehensive campaign. Rafuse draws from extensive research in primary sources to provide a fast-paced, complete account of operations throughout Virginia, while also incorporating findings of recent scholarship on the factors that shaped these campaigns. The work provides invaluable insights into the factors and individuals who shaped these operations, how they influenced the course of the war, the relationships between political leaders and men in uniform, and how all these factors affected the development and execution of strategy, operations, and tactics.

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University Press of Kansas

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0700633537

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9780700633531

A Single Grand Victory

The First Campaign and Battle of Manassas

By: Ethan Sepp Rafuse

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The First Campaign and Battle of Manassas

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McClellan's War

The Failure of Moderation in the Struggle for the Union

By: Ethan Sepp Rafuse

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McClellan's War

The Failure of Moderation in the Struggle for the Union

By: Ethan Sepp Rafuse

Bold, brash, and full of ambition, George Brinton McClellan seemed destined for greatness when he assumed command of all the Union armies before he was 35. It was not to be. Ultimately deemed a failure on the battlefield by Abraham Lincoln, he was finally dismissed from command following the bloody battle of Antietam. To better understand this fascinating, however flawed, character, Ethan S. Rafuse considers the broad and complicated political climate of the earlier 19th century. Rather than blaming McClellan for the Union's military losses, Rafuse attempts to understand his political thinking as it affected his wartime strategy. As a result, Rafuse sheds light not only on McClellan's conduct on the battlefields of 1861-62 but also on United States politics and culture in the years leading up to the Civil War. - Publisher.

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Indiana University Press

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0253345324

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9780253345325

Robert E. Lee and the Fall of the Confederacy, 1863-1865

By: Ethan Sepp Rafuse

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McClellan's War

The Failure of Moderation in the Struggle for the Union

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The Failure of Moderation in the Struggle for the Union

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A Single Grand Victory

A Single Grand Victory

Robert E. Lee and the Fall of the Confederacy, 1863-1865

Robert E. Lee and the Fall of the Confederacy, 1863-1865

From the Mountains to the Bay

From the Mountains to the Bay

A Single Grand Victory

A Single Grand Victory

McClellan's War

McClellan's War

Robert E. Lee and the Fall of the Confederacy, 1863-1865

Robert E. Lee and the Fall of the Confederacy, 1863-1865

McClellan's War

McClellan's War

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