Counter-Thrust: From the Peninsula to the Antietam (Great

Counter-Thrust: From the Peninsula to the Antietam (Great Campaigns of the Civil War)

During the summer of 1862, a Confederate resurgence threatened to turn the tide of the Civil War. When the Unionâ€™s earlier multitheater thrust into the South proved to be a strategic overreach, the Confederacy saw its chance to reverse the loss of the Upper South through counteroffensives from the Chesapeake to the Mississippi. Benjamin Franklin Cooling tells this story in Counter-Thrust, recounting in harrowing detail Robert E. Leeâ€™s flouting of his antagonist George B. McClellanâ€™s drive to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond and describing the Confederate heroâ€™s long-dreamt-of offensive to reclaim central and northern Virginia before crossing the Potomac.
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Counter-Thrust also provides a window into the Unionâ€™s internal conflict at building a successful military leadership team during this defining period. Cooling shows us Lincolnâ€™s administration in disarray, with relations between the president and field commander McClellan strained to the breaking point. He also shows how the fortunes of war shifted abruptly in the Unionâ€™s favor, climaxing at Antietam with the bloodiest single day in American historyâ€”and in Lincolnâ€™s decision to announce a preliminary Emancipation Proclamation. Here in all its gritty detail and considerable depth is a critical moment in the unfolding of the Civil War and of American history.
Country USA
Brand University of Nebraska Press
Manufacturer University of Nebraska Press
Binding Paperback
UnitCount 1
Format Illustrated
EANs 9780803271722
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	University of Nebraska Press
Manufacturer	University of Nebraska Press
Binding	Paperback
UnitCount	1
Format	Illustrated
EANs	9780803271722
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Counter-Thrust: From the Peninsula to the Antietam (Great Campaigns of the Civil War)

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