Название: Bloody Spring: Forty Days that Sealed the Confederacy's Fate
Автор: Joseph Wheelan
Издательство: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 0306822067
Год: 2014
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 448
Для сайта: LitMy
Размер: 3,8 МБ
Язык: Английский
In the spring of 1864, Virginia remained unbroken, its armies having repelled Northern armies for more than two years. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia had defeated the campaigns of four Union generals, and Lee's veterans were confident they could crush the Union offensive this spring, too. But their adversary in 1864 was a different kind of Union commander—Ulysses S. Grant. The new Union general-in-chief had never lost a major battle while leading armies in the West. A quiet, rumpled man of simple tastes and a bulldog's determination, Grant would lead the Army of the Potomac in its quest to destroy Lee's army.