Description

From an internationally renowned expert on US history, this highly illustrated title details the curtain-closing campaign of the American Civil War in the East.

Ulysses S Grant's Army of the Potomac and Robert E Lee's Army of Northern Virginia faced up to one another one last time, resulting in Lee conducting a desperate series of withdrawals and retreats down the line of the Richmond and Danville Railroad, hoping to join forces with General Joseph E. Johnston's Army of Tennessee.

This book, with informative full-colour illustrations and maps, tells the full story of the skirmishes and pursuits that led directly to Lee's surrender, as his frantic efforts to extricate his forces from ever more perilous positions became increasingly untenable.

Table of Contents

Origins of the campaign
Chronology
Opposing commanders
Opposing armies
Orders of battle
Opposing plans
The campaign

Aftermath
The battlefields today
Further reading
Index

Product details

Published Mar 20 2015
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Extent 96
ISBN 9781472807533
Imprint Osprey Publishing
Illustrations 3 col
Series Campaign
Short code CAM 279
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Author

Ron Field

Ron Field is an internationally acknowledged exper…

Illustrator

Adam Hook

Adam Hook studied graphic design, and began his wo…

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