Free Downloads Rebels Resurgent: Fredericksburg To Chancellorsville (Civil War)
Beautifully bound and illustrated civil war volume featuring Fredericksburg to Chancellorsville.
Series: Civil War
Hardcover: 176 pages
Publisher: Time Life; illustrated edition edition (April 1985)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0809447487
ISBN-13: 978-0809447480
Product Dimensions: 0.5 x 9.2 x 11 inches
Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
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Best Sellers Rank: #534,334 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #14 in Books > History > Americas > United States > Civil War > Campaigns & Battlefields > Fredericksburg #5168 in Books > History > Military > United States
This book in the Time-Life Civil War Series looks at the period between McClellan's departure as commander of the Army of the Potomac and General Lee's offensive into the North which would culminate in the Battle of Gettysburg. During this period Burnside and Hooker in succession took command of the Army of the Potomac... with disastrous results.There are several lessons for the student of the military arts in this epsiode. ONE: if a general officer says he isn't capable of commanding an army YOU SHOULD LISTEN TO HIM. It turns out that Burnside knew what he was talking about when he said he wasn't worthy of taking charge of the Federal army facing Lee in Northern Virginia.TWO: If weather and other factors delay your campaign plan to the point where it is obvious what your plan IS, you should probably call it off or better yet do something else that is totally unexpected.THREE: The U.S. Army really should have had a formally-trained general staff system instead of the ad-hoc system in place during the Civil War.A Prussian-style general staff would have at least mitigated the effects of the incompetence of Hooker and Burnside.In December of 1862 Burnside crossed the Rappahannock with the three "wings" of his Army using pontoon bridges. The Union soldiers couragiously crossed the river but the Confederates were waiting for them on the heights above the town of Fredericksburg since the movement took so long that it was obvious what the objective was. Desperate charges against Maryes Heighst and elsewhere decimated the Northern soldiers.Then it was Hooker's turn.
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