详细书目
| 附加的形体格式: | Online version: Sutherland, Daniel E. Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c1998 (OCoLC)607088573 |
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| 材料类型: | 政府刊物, 州政府或者省政府刊物 |
| 文件类型: | 书 |
| 所有的著者/提供者: |
Daniel E Sutherland |
| ISBN: | 0803242530 9780803242531 |
| OCLC号码: | 38324637 |
| 描述: | xiv, 234 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| 内容: | Introduction -- Of generals and politicians -- Right in the wrong place -- Terrible uproar and destruction -- Not a pleasant topic -- Mired hopes and mud marches -- Hurrah for Hooker -- The Chinese game -- Practicing strategy -- Days of hard marching and derring-do -- The hardest battle ever fought -- Epilogue : Luck favored pluck and skill. |
| 丛书名: | Great campaigns of the Civil War. |
| 其他题名: | Fredericksburg & Chancellorsville |
| 责任: | Daniel E. Sutherland. |
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摘要:
The staggering Confederate victories at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville are seldom treated as part of a coherent strategy, and they have never been presented as a single campaign. Yet, analyzed as a whole, the two battles go far to explain Lee's military success.
At the same time, the failures and bungling that characterized Federal efforts are more intelligible when seen in the light of the political and military circumstances that thrust unprepared and inadequate Union commanders into predicaments they little understood. The eastern theater in the winter of 1862 and spring of 1863 witnessed sudden shifts in Northern command and strategy and increasing political intervention.
Lincoln despaired of McClellan and sought a general more willing to fight; whatever the ultimate result of this search, it provided opportunities the canny Lee was willing and able to exploit.

