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Trench Warfare under Grant and Lee

Field Fortifications in the Overland Campaign

Earl J. Hess

Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 04/2011
Pages: 336
Subject: History | University of North Carolina
Print ISBN: 9.78E+12
eBook ISBN: 9780807882382

DESCRIPTION

Earl J.Hess's study of armies and fortifications turns to the 1864 Overland Campaign to cover battles from the Wilderness to Cold Harbor. Drawing on meticulous research in primary sources and careful examination of battlefields at the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, North Anna, Bermuda Hundred, and Cold Harbor, , Hess analyzes Union and Confederate movements and tactics and the new way Grant and Lee employed entrenchments in an evolving style of battle. Hess argues that Grant's relentless and pressing attacks kept the armies always within striking distance, compelling soldiers to dig in for protection.

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