The more cautious commanders of the Army of the Potomac, such as George McClellan and George Meade, chose to withdraw after costly battles, but commander Ulysses Grant's strategywas the keeping up of pressure on Lee's Confederates even after losing a battle to them, and then he occupied...
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Controversies and Commanders: Dispatches from the Army of the Potomac BOOK REVIEWS273 combat during the Mexican War, perhaps that as a Confederate General, he was promoted beyond his capabilities and was known almost as much ... GJW Urwin,SW Sears - 《Civil War History》 被引量: 7发表: ...
commanders and chief of artillery in the Army of Northern Virginia, and the Army of the Potomac's chief of artillery and engineers as well as the artillery reserve commander. (The two non-West Pointers were Confederate division commander Robert Rodes, a Virginia Military Institute graduate, and ...
contemporary newspaper accounts and regimental histories to illustrate what the men of the Army of the Potomac thought of their commanders, campaigns, and everyday life in camp and on campaign. His narrative provides little new information about the operations of the Army of the Potomac, but it ...
McClellan: Shield of the Union (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press, 1957), 171. Numerous other references to McClellan's dependence on and ... EC Fishel - 《Civil War History》 被引量: 5发表: 1988年 Commanders of the Army of the Potomac. By Warren W. Hassler, Jr. (Baton Rou...
19, 1863. Lincoln spoke at the dedication of a cemetery for those killed in the battle of July 1–3 between George Gordon Meade’s Army of the Potomac and Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia. The main speaker was Edward Everett, a renowned orator. When the board in charge of ...
"Seeing the Elephant": Raw Recruits at the Battle of Shiloh See also Buell, Don Carlos Army of the Potomac, 86 Army of the Tennessee: divisional commanders , 14; eagerness for action compared , 83, 86; medical services in, 15356 ; nearly destroyed at Shiloh, 145; order of battle, 14;...
For five days, the Army of the Potomac hurried to get between the Confederates and the National capital. On 1 July 1863, the 20th Maine received word to press on to Gettysburg. The Union Army had engaged the Confederates there, and Union commanders were hurrying all available forces to ...
As the sun set on the evening of July 3rd 1863 the battered Army of Northern Virginia and the battered but victorious Army of the Potomac tended their wounds, buried their dead and prepared for what might happen next. On that afternoon it was as if“the doors of Hell had shut”and the...