General Lee's army : from victory to collapse / Joseph T. Glatthaar.
General Robert E. Lee's army was a surprise to almost everyone: With daring early victories and an invasion into the North, they nearly managed to convince the North to give up the fight. Astonishingly, after 150 years of scholarship, there are still some major surprises about the Army of Northern Virginia. Historian Joseph T. Glatthaar draws on sources assembled over two decades--from letters and diaries, to official war records, to a new, definitive database of statistics--to rewrite the history of the Civil War's most important army and, indeed, of the war itself. The history of Lee's army is a powerful lens on the entire war. The fate of Lee's army explains why the South almost won--and why it lost. The story of his men--their reasons for fighting, their cohesion, mounting casualties, diseases, supply problems, and discipline problems--tells it all.--From publisher description.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780684827872
- ISBN: 0684827875
- Physical Description: xv, 600 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, plans ; 24 cm
- Edition: 1st Free Press edition
- Publisher: New York : Free Press, 2008.
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 543-581) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- 1 Comedy of Errors, Tragedy of Triumph 1 -- 2 Secession and Mobilizing for War 10 -- 3 Volunteers of '61 17 -- 4 Why They Enlisted 29 -- 5 Becoming Soldiers 42 -- 6 "To Slaughter One Another Like Brutes" 53 -- 7 "A Great Canvass City" 66 -- 8 Keeping the Army Together 78 -- 9 Clashes within the High Command 89 -- 10 Playing Troops Like Fireflies 104 -- 11 Lee in Command 123 -- 12 Battle for Richmond: The Seven Days' Campaign 135 -- 13 Taking War to the Enemy 150 -- 14 A Failure of Discipline 174 -- 15 Lee's Officer Corps and Army Culture 186 -- 16 Soldiers of '62 200 -- 17 Supplying the Army 208 -- 18 Camp and Recreation 220 -- 19 Religion and Morality 228 -- 20 Chancellorsville 242 -- 21 Arms and Ammunition 258 -- 22 Failure at Gettysburg 268 -- 23 Home Front 289 -- 24 Blacks and the Army 304 -- 25 Combat 315 -- 26 Lee and the High Command 334 -- 27 Preparing for the Spring Campaign of 1864 355 -- 28 Overland Campaign 364 -- 29 Trenches 378 -- 30 Medical Care 388 -- 31 Manpower 397 -- 32 Desertion 408 -- 33 Grind of War 421 -- 34 Spiral of Defeat 442 -- 35 Final Days 457 -- Appendix I Sample 473.
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