
Cold Harbor
Grant and Lee, May 26-June 3, 1864
Gordon C. Rhea(Author)
Louisiana State University Press
Published on 30. April 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
552 pages
978-0-8071-3244-9 (ISBN)
Description
Gordon Rhea's gripping fourth volume on the spring 1864 campaign- which pitted Ulysses S. Grant against Robert E. Lee for the first time in the Civil War- vividly re-creates the battles and maneuvers from the stalemate on the North Anna River through the Cold Harbor offensive. Cold Harbor: Grant and Lee, May 26- June 3, 1864 showcases Rhea's tenacious research which elicits stunning new facts from the records of a phase oddly ignored or mythologized by historians. In clear and profuse tactical detail, Rhea tracks the remarkable events of those nine days, giving a surprising new interpretation of the famous battle that left seven thousand Union casualties and only fifteen hundred Confederate dead or wounded. Here, Grant is not a callous butcher, and Lee does not wage a perfect fight. Within the pages of Cold Harbor, Rhea separates fact from fiction in a charged, evocative narrative. He leaves readers under a moonless sky, with Grant pondering the eastward course of the James River fifteen miles south of the encamped armies.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Baton Rouge
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
792 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8071-3244-9 (9780807132449)
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04/2007
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
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Person
Gordon C. Rhea is the author ofOn to Petersburg: Grant and Lee, June 4- 15, 1864; The Battle of the Wilderness, May 5- 6, 1864; The Battles for Spotsylvania Court House and the Road to Yellow Tavern, May 7- 12, 1864; and To the North Anna River: Grant and Lee, May 13- 25, 1864, winner of the Fletcher Pratt Literary Award, among other books. He lives in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina.