Strike Them a Blow: Battle along the North Anna River, May 21-25, 1864

Strike Them a Blow: Battle along the North Anna River, May 21-25, 1864

by Chris Mackowski
Strike Them a Blow: Battle along the North Anna River, May 21-25, 1864

Strike Them a Blow: Battle along the North Anna River, May 21-25, 1864

by Chris Mackowski

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Overview

The Civil War historian and author of A Season of Slaughter continues his engaging account of the Overland Campaign in this vivid chronicle.

By May of 1864, Federal commander Ulysses S. Grant had resolved to destroy his Confederate adversaries through attrition if by no other means. Meanwhile, his Confederate counterpart, Robert E. Lee, looked for an opportunity to regain the offensive initiative. “We must strike them a blow,” he told his lieutenants.

But Grant’s war of attrition began to take its toll in a more insidious way. Both army commanders—exhausted and fighting off illness—began to feel the continuous, merciless grind of combat in very personal ways. Punch-drunk tired, they began to second-guess themselves, missing opportunities and making mistakes. As a result, along the banks of the North Anna River, commanders on both sides brought their armies to the brink of destruction without even knowing it.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781611212556
Publisher: Savas Beatie
Publication date: 05/20/2022
Series: Emerging Civil War Series
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 168
File size: 76 MB
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About the Author

Chris Mackowski, Ph.D., is the editor-in-chief and co-founder of the online resource Emerging Civil War. A writing professor in the Jandoli School of Communication at St. Bonaventure University in Allegany, NY, Chris is also historian-in-residence at Stevenson Ridge, a historic property on the Spotsylvania battlefield in central Virginia. The series editor of the award-winning Emerging Civil War Series, he has authored or co-authored a dozen books on the Civil War, and his articles have appeared in major Civil War magazines.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments viii

Touring the Battlefield x

Foreword Gordon C. Rhea xiii

Prologue xix

Chapter 1 The Campaign 1

Chapter 2 Hancock's March 11

Chapter 3 The Fog of War 19

Chapter 4 Leaving Spotsylvania 25

Chapter 5 The Night March 31

Chapter 6 "Wherever Lee Goes…" 37

Chapter 7 Before the Storm 45

Chapter 8 The Battle for Henagan's Redoubt 53

Chapter 9 The Battle of Jericho Mills 63

Chapter 10 Lee's Council of War 79

Chapter 11 At Mt. Carmel Church 89

Chapter 12 Marching into the Trap 95

Chapter 13 The Battle of Ox Ford 105

Chapter 14 Strike Them a Blow 113

Chapter 15 Stalemate 117

Appendix A The Battle of Wilson's Wharf Emmanuel Dabney 125

Appendix B The Battle of Milford Station Darnel T. Davis 133

Appendix C The Eye of the Storm Chris Mackowski 137

Appendix D Lee's Engineer: Martin Luther Smith Rob Orrison 143

Appendix E Preserving North Anna: A Personal Battlefield Journey John F. Cummings III 147

Appendix F Preserving North Anna: The Art of the Battle Chris Mackowski 153

Order of Battle 156

Suggested Reading 168

About the Author 170

Maps Hal Jespersen

North Anna Battlefield XI

The Campaign through May 20, 1864 2

Hancock's March 12

Advance to the North Anna River 38

Capture of Henagan's Redoubt 56

Jericho Mills-May 23, 1864: Phase One 68

Jericho Mills-May 23, 1864: Phase Two 72

Lee's Inverted "V" 80

Lee's Inverted "V": and Grant's Deployment 96

North Anna River to Totopotomoy Creek 122

Wilson's Wharf 126

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