Название: A Want of Vigilance: The Bristoe Station Campaign, October 9-19, 1863
Автор: Bill Backus, Robert Orrison
Издательство: Savas Beatie
ISBN: 1611213002
Год: 2015
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 192
Для сайта: litgu.ru
Размер: 88,7 МБ
Язык: Английский
Part of the Emerging Civil War Series, this history covers a crucial clash between the Blue and the Gray that impacted future Union tactics and victories.
The months after the Battle of Gettysburg were anything but quiet—filled with skirmishes and cavalry clashes. Nonetheless, Union commander Maj. Gen. George Gordon Meade had yet to encounter his Confederate counterpart, Gen. Robert E. Lee, in combat.
Lee’s army, severely bloodied at Gettysburg, did not have the offensive capability it once possessed. Yet Lee’s aggressive nature could not be quelled, and he looked for the chance to strike out at Meade.
In mid-October, 1863, both men shifted their armies into motion, each surprising the other. Quickly, Meade found himself racing northward for safety along the Orange & Alexandria Railroad, with Lee charging up the rail line behind him.