James S. Price

Battle of First Deep Bottom (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This Civil War history examines a complex and pivotal, yet often-overlooked, battle of the Petersburg Campaign. On July 26, 1864, Union general Winfield Scott Hancock's corps and three cavalry divisions under Philip H. Sheridan crossed to the north side of the James River at the Deep Bottom bridgehead. What was supposed to be a raid on Confederate railroads and possibly even a breakthrough to the Confederate capital of Richmond turned into a bloody skirmish. Richard H. Anderson's Confederate forces prevented a Union victory, but only at a great cost. In response, Robert E. Lee was forced to move half his army from the key fortifications at Petersburg, which were left all the more vulnerable in the subsequent Battle of the Crater. Historian James S. Price presents an authoritative chronicle of this pivotal moment in the Petersburg Campaign and the close of the war. Including newly constructed maps from Steven Stanley and a foreword from fellow Civil War scholar Hampton Newsome, this is the definitive account of the Battle of First Deep Bottom.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781625846815
• Artikelnr.: 41860238

Autorenporträt

James S. Price is a historian, blogger and educator. A native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he has dedicated his life to the study of the American Civil War and has worked at many Civil War sites including Petersburg National Battlefield, Pamplin Historical Park and the American Civil War Center at Historic Tredegar. He received his bachelor of arts in history from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2005 and his master of arts in military history from Norwich University in 2009. Hampton Newsome is an attorney who lives in Arlington, Virginia. He is the author ofRichmond Must Fall: The Richmond-Petersburg Campaign, October 1864" and is an editor of "Civil War Talks: Further Reminiscences of George S. Bernard and His Fellow Veterans." He blogs about the Civil War at: http://hamptonnewsome.blogspot.com/"