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Author
Publisher
Louisiana State University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
x, 432 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In "Civil War Supply and Strategy," renowned Civil War historian Earl Hess examines the decisive link between distributing provisions to soldiers and the strategic movement of armies during the conflict. Feeding men and moving armies, he suggests, became the foundation of success, especially for the army that was on the strategic offensive. While a defending army found its logistical and supply problems minimized, an offensive army discovered that...
Author
Series
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xx, 380 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Here Earl J. Hess offers an in-depth military history of a critical phase of the long federal campaign to capture Vicksburg, Mississippi during the Civil War. Hess focuses on the period from May 18-23, 1863, comprising the end of Ulysses S. Grant's overland march to the rear of the city and the beginning of his siege. These five days were a watershed in the development of Grant's eight months-long campaign to capture the Gibraltar of the Confederacy....
Author
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
2000.
Physical Desc
xiv, 252 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Banners to the Breeze analyzes three major Civil War campaigns that were conducted following a series of devastating Confederate defeats at the hands of Ulysses S. Grant in the spring of 1862. Earl J. Hess mixes dramatic narrative and new analysis as he brings these campaigns together in a coherent whole. Previously unpublished historic photographs of the battlefields are included."--BOOK JACKET.
Author
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
xv, 392 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Provides a history of Civil War battles fought in the stretch of land from the Appalachians to the Mississippi, discussing how the North leveraged the manpower of free blacks and advanced technologies to come out the victor.
Author
Series
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xii, 329 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
On July 20, 1864, the Civil War struggle for Atlanta reached a pivotal moment. As William T. Sherman's Union forces came ever nearer the city, the defending Confederate Army of Tennessee replaced its commanding general, removing Joseph E. Johnston and elevating John Bell Hood. This decision stunned and demoralized Confederate troops just when Hood was compelled to take the offensive against the approaching Federals. Attacking northward from Atlanta's...
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