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Bloody spring : forty days that sealed the Confederacy's fate  Cover Image CD Audiobook CD Audiobook

Bloody spring : forty days that sealed the Confederacy's fate / by Joseph Wheelan.

Wheelan, Joseph. (Author). Gardner, Grover, (narrator.).

Summary:
In the spring of 1864, Robert E. Lee faced a new adversary: Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant. Named commander of all Union armies in March, Grant quickly went on the offensive against Lee in Virginia. On May 4 Grant's army struck hard across the Rapidan River into north central Virginia, with Lee's army contesting every mile. They fought for forty days until, finally, the Union army crossed the James River and began the siege of Petersburg. The campaign cost ninety thousand men?the largest loss the war had seen. While Grant lost nearly twice as many men as Lee did, he could replace them. Lee could not and would never again mount another major offensive. Lee's surrender at Appomattox less than a year later was the denouement of the drama begun in those crucial forty days.

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  • ISBN: 9781482973679
  • Physical Description: 12 audio discs (14 hr.) ; 4 3/4 in.
  • Edition: Unabridged.

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Participant or Performer Note:
Read by Grover Gardner.
Subject: Overland Campaign, Va., 1864.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Campaigns.
Virginia > History > Civil War, 1861-1865.
Genre: Audiobooks.

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Harbaugh-Thomas Library (Biglerville) AUDIO 973.736 WHEELAN 12-CDS (Text) 35740634638910 Audiobook Available -

Summary: In the spring of 1864, Robert E. Lee faced a new adversary: Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant. Named commander of all Union armies in March, Grant quickly went on the offensive against Lee in Virginia. On May 4 Grant's army struck hard across the Rapidan River into north central Virginia, with Lee's army contesting every mile. They fought for forty days until, finally, the Union army crossed the James River and began the siege of Petersburg. The campaign cost ninety thousand men?the largest loss the war had seen. While Grant lost nearly twice as many men as Lee did, he could replace them. Lee could not and would never again mount another major offensive. Lee's surrender at Appomattox less than a year later was the denouement of the drama begun in those crucial forty days.

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