And Keep Moving On: The Virginia Campaign, May-June 1864
Mark Grimsley
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Description for And Keep Moving On: The Virginia Campaign, May-June 1864
Paperback. Sees the Virginia campaign of spring 1864 as Ulysses S Grant and Robert E Lee saw it: a single, massive operation stretching hundreds of miles. The story of the campaign is also the story of the demise of two great armies. Series: Great Campaigns of the Civil War. Num Pages: 283 pages, Illus., maps. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
And Keep Moving On is the first book to see the Virginia campaign of spring 1864 as Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee saw it: a single, massive operation stretching hundreds of miles. The story of the campaign is also the story of the demise of two great armies. The scale of casualties and human suffering that the campaign inflicted makes it unique in U.S. history. Mark Grimsley's study, however, is not just another battle book. Grimsley places the campaign in the political context of the 1864 presidential election; appraises the motivation of soldiers; appreciates the impact of the ... Read more
And Keep Moving On is the first book to see the Virginia campaign of spring 1864 as Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee saw it: a single, massive operation stretching hundreds of miles. The story of the campaign is also the story of the demise of two great armies. The scale of casualties and human suffering that the campaign inflicted makes it unique in U.S. history. Mark Grimsley's study, however, is not just another battle book. Grimsley places the campaign in the political context of the 1864 presidential election; appraises the motivation of soldiers; appreciates the impact of the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
283
Condition
New
Series
Great Campaigns of the Civil War
Number of Pages
283
Place of Publication
Lincoln, United States
ISBN
9780803271197
SKU
V9780803271197
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About Mark Grimsley
Mark Grimsley is a professor of history at Ohio State University. His books include The Collapse of the Confederacy, Civilians in the Path of War (Nebraska 2001) and Gettysburg: A Battlefield Guide (Bison Books 1999).
Reviews for And Keep Moving On: The Virginia Campaign, May-June 1864
“The six-week military campaign that began that May, energetically recounted in historian Mark Grimsley’s And Keep Moving On . . . became a legendary duel. By focusing on the Wilderness, Grimsley also takes us into a moment when the Civil War battlefield – if not combat itself – was transformed.”—Washington Post "Engagingly written, thoroughly researched, and thought provoking, Grimsley's And ... Read more