Taken at the Flood: Robert E. Lee and Confederate Strategy in the Maryland Campaign of 1862An account of the Maryland Campaign of 1862. It focuses on military policy and strategy, examining the context necessary to understand that strategy and the circumstances under which the two commanders, Robert E. Lee and George B. McClellan, laboured. |
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... batteries stood sentinel on Antietam's hallowed ground . At its nadir , Antietam even lost its autonomous identity . For two decades it existed as a branch under the authority of the superintendent at Get- tysburg . 6 Scholarship ...
... batteries stood sentinel on Antietam's hallowed ground . At its nadir , Antietam even lost its autonomous identity . For two decades it existed as a branch under the authority of the superintendent at Get- tysburg . 6 Scholarship ...
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... batteries available for Second Manassas had been augmented by twelve with D. H. Hill , McLaws , Walker , and Hampton and another nineteen in the Artillery Reserve . The total of seventy - four batteries averaged slightly over four guns ...
... batteries available for Second Manassas had been augmented by twelve with D. H. Hill , McLaws , Walker , and Hampton and another nineteen in the Artillery Reserve . The total of seventy - four batteries averaged slightly over four guns ...
Page 73
... batteries had suffered severely during the summer's campaigns . Their horses and equipment had worn down , and their ranks had been reduced below the minimum necessary for efficient operation.14 Lee could not solve all of these problems ...
... batteries had suffered severely during the summer's campaigns . Their horses and equipment had worn down , and their ranks had been reduced below the minimum necessary for efficient operation.14 Lee could not solve all of these problems ...
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... be " cussed " into Maryland by Maj . John A. Harmon , Jackson's quartermaster . At least one battery commander ignored the recent general order and allowed his cannoneers to ride across Lee Crosses the Potomac , September 4-6 · 87.
... be " cussed " into Maryland by Maj . John A. Harmon , Jackson's quartermaster . At least one battery commander ignored the recent general order and allowed his cannoneers to ride across Lee Crosses the Potomac , September 4-6 · 87.
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... batteries even temporarily disbanded retarded his progress.51 During the day , Longstreet's command and R. H. ... battery of Robertson's cavalry brigade , which was also camped nearby , wrote in his diary of the " joyous gayety ...
... batteries even temporarily disbanded retarded his progress.51 During the day , Longstreet's command and R. H. ... battery of Robertson's cavalry brigade , which was also camped nearby , wrote in his diary of the " joyous gayety ...
Contents
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Lee to the Rescue | 254 |
The Battle of Boonsboro | 256 |
Jackson Tightens the Noose | 267 |
The Battle of Cramptons Gap | 275 |
The First Retreat | 284 |
We will make our stand on these hills Lees Hope Renewed September 15 1862 | 298 |
Lee Stands at Sharpsburg | 299 |
The Pursuit Ends | 308 |
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In this I was disappointed Lee Revises His Strategy September 79 1862 | 110 |
Restful Sabbath September 7 | 111 |
Lee Dabbles in Politics September 8 | 120 |
The Intrusion of Jeff Davis September 9 | 127 |
The Walker Interview | 133 |
Frederick Council of War | 145 |
The Writing of Special Orders No 191 | 152 |
Intercept such as may attempt escape Lees BestLaid Plans September 1012 1862 | 168 |
The Second Day of the Valley Expedition September 11 | 182 |
Lee at Hagerstown September 12 | 190 |
The Watershed of the Maryland Campaign | 198 |
More rapidly than convenient Lees Plans Unravel September 13 1862 | 212 |
Some Concern in the Morning | 213 |
The Pendulum Swings Back | 223 |
The Lost Orders Found | 237 |
The Crisis by Eventide | 242 |
The day has gone against us Lee Stands at the Mountain Gaps September 14 1862 | 253 |
The Surrender of Harpers Ferry | 315 |
Lees Resolve Strengthened | 322 |
All will be right Lees Last Chance for Maneuver September 16 1862 | 330 |
Lee and the Whims of War | 334 |
McClellan Shuts the Window | 344 |
Lee Accepts Battle at Sharpsburg | 354 |
A hard days work before us Lees Bloodiest Day September 17 1862 | 368 |
15 to 9OO AM | 370 |
3O to 930 AM | 377 |
00 AM to 100 PM | 385 |
30 AM to 13O PM | 395 |
30 AM to 200 PM | 401 |
00 to 500 PM | 413 |
Night of Reckoning | 424 |
Until none but heroes are left Antietam Endgame September 1821 1862 and After | 430 |
Williamsport the Last Gambit September 1819 | 444 |
Checkmate at Shepherdstown September 1921 | 452 |
Echoes of Maryland | 471 |
We have tried the utmost Lees Venture Risked and Lost | 480 |
Verdicts of History | 481 |
Lees Overland Campaign of 1862A Shore Too Far | 490 |
Notes | 497 |
Bibliography | 591 |
Index | 613 |
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A. P. Hill advance Anderson Antietam Army of Northern arrived artillery attack batteries believed Boonsboro Borcke brigade Burkittsville Burnside capture Carman cavalry Cemetery Hill chap column Confederacy Confederate army Confederate commander Crampton's Gap cross the Potomac D. H. Hill Diary dispatch division Dunkard Church enemy expedition fighting flank Ford Frederick guns Hagerstown Hagerstown Pike Hampton Harpers Ferry headquarters Hill's Hood Hooker Hotchkiss ibid infantry Jackson Keedysville Lee the Soldier Lee to Davis Lee's Leesburg Longstreet Loudoun Lower Bridge main body Martinsburg Maryland Campaign Maryland Heights McClellan McLaws McLaws's Memoirs miles Monocacy morning move Munford night North Carolina North Carolina Regiments Northern Virginia o'clock orders Pendleton Pleasonton rear reenforcements retreat Richmond Ridge river rode Second Manassas sect sent Sept September September 17 Sharpsburg Shepherdstown Sounding the Shallows South Mountain Stonewall strategy tion troops Turner's Gap Valley wagons Walker Washington Weverton Williamsport
Popular passages
Page vi - There is a tide in the affairs of men Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat; And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures.
Page 162 - Longstreet, Jackson, and McLaws, and with the main body of the cavalry, will cover the route of the army and bring up all stragglers that may have been left behind. The commands of Generals Jackson, McLaws, and Walker, after accomplishing the objects for which they have been detached, will join the main body of the army at Boonsboro or Hagerstown.
Page 127 - The proposal of peace would enable the people of the United States to determine at their coming elections whether they will support those who favor a prolongation of the war or those who wish to bring it to a termination which can but be productive of good to both parties without affecting the honor of either.
Page 126 - Such a proposition, coming from us at this time, could in no way be regarded as suing for peace ; but, being made when it is in our power to inflict injury upon our adversary, would show conclusively to the world that our sole object is the establishment of our independence and the attainment of an honorable peace.
Page 161 - Middletown he will take the route to Harper's Ferry, and by Friday morning possess himself of the Maryland Heights, and endeavor to capture the enemy at Harper's Ferry and vicinity.
Page 509 - The condition of Maryland encouraged the belief that the presence of our army, however inferior to that of the enemy, would induce the Washington Government to retain all its available force to provide against contingencies which its course toward the people of that State gave it reason to apprehend.
Page 157 - Sbarpsburg, cross the Potomac at the most convenient point, and, by Friday night, take possession of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, capture such of the enemy as may be at Martinsburg, and intercept such as may attempt to escape from Harper's Ferry.
Page 161 - Ford on his left, and the road between the end of the mountain and the Potomac on his right. He will, as far as practicable, co-operate with General McLaws and General Jackson in intercepting the retreat of the enemy "General DH Hill's division will form the rear guard of the army, pursuing the road taken by the main body.
Page 126 - The rejection of this offer would prove to the country that the responsibility of the continuance of the war does not rest upon us, but that the party in power in the United States elect to prosecute it for purposes of their own.