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Charles River Editors
ASIN: B00WTP83CQ
Publisher: Charles River Editors
Pages: 82

*Includes pictures*Includes accounts of the campaign written by various generals and soldiers on both sides*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading*Includes a table of contents“I have seen your despatch expressing your unwillingness to break your hold where you are. Neither am I willing. Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible." – President Abraham Lincoln to Ulysses S. Grant, August 1864After the last major pitched battle of the Overland Campaign was fought at Cold Harbor in early June, Ulysses S. Grant’s Army of the Potomac had suffered more casualties during the campaign than Robert E. Lee had in his entire Army of Northern Virginia at the start of May. Understandably, the American public was shocked by the carnage, and to this day Grant has been accused of being a butcher, but attrition had become a vital war aim for the North ...
Amazon Rating:
4.5 stars from 17 ratings