Field armies and fortifications in the Civil War : the Eastern campaigns, 1861-1864 /

Tracing the campaigns of the armies of the Potomac and Northern Virginia from 1861 to 1864, this text considers the role of field fortifications in the defense of cities, river crossings and in battles. Blending technical construction with operational history, the role earthworks played in the succe...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Hess, Earl J.
Format: Licensed eBooks
Langue:anglais
Publié: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press ©2005.
Collection:Civil War America (Series)
Accès en ligne:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9780807876398_hess
Table des matières:
  • Engineering war
  • On to Richmond
  • Western Virginia and Eastern North Carolina
  • The Peninsula
  • From Seven Pines to the Seven Days
  • Second Manassas, Antietam, and the Maryland Campaign
  • Fredericksburg
  • Chancellorsville
  • Goldsborough, New Bern, Washington, and Suffolk
  • Gettysburg and Lee's Pennsylvania campaign
  • Charleston
  • The reduction of Battery Wagner
  • From Bristoe Station to the fall of Plymouth.