Not war but murder : Cold Harbor, 1864 / Ernest B. Furgurson.
"On the morning of friday, June 3, 1864, Generals Ulysses S. Grant and George G. Meade brought their overland campaign against Richmond to its climax in an all-out assault on Robert E. Lee's entrenched rebels at Cold Harbor, less than ten miles outside the Confederate capital. The result was out-right slaughter -- Grant's worst defeat, and Lee's last great victory. Though Grant tried afterward to forget the battle, and historians have often misunderstood its importance, Cold Harbor remains what Bruce Catton called 'one of the hard and terrible names of the Civil War, perhaps the most terrible of all'". -- from fly leaf.
Record details
- ISBN: 0679455175
- ISBN: 9780679455172
- Physical Description: xiii, 328 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition
- Publisher: New York : Knopf, 2000.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-311) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Prologue: The Circumstances of the Case 3 -- 1 Rising Sun 6 -- 2 We Must Strike Them a Blow 26 -- 3 Rely Upon It the End Is Near 38 -- 4 Damn Them Let Them Kill Me Too 55 -- 5 Hold Cold Harbor at All Hazards 74 -- 6 Splendor of Our Victories 87 -- 7 You Cannot Conceive the Horror 99 -- 8 Richmond Dead in Front 116 -- 9 It Was Not War, It Was Murder 136 -- 10 A Simple and Absolute Impossibility 155 -- 11 All a Weary, Long Mistake 169 -- 12 You Kneed Not to Be Oneasy 181 -- 13 Like a Scene in an Opera 194 -- 14 Killing Without Any Battle 211 -- 15 A Nice Friendly Chat 220 -- 16 Heavens Hung in Black 232 -- 17 Across the Last River 243 -- Epilogue: Dust to Kindly Dust 257. |
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| Montgomery County Public Library | 973.7 F (Text) | 38198000041382 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Moore County Library | 973.737 F (Text) | 48198000932356 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
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