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This book follows the men of the 5th Corps and the Army of the Potomac through the Wilderness, Spotsylvania and Cold Harbor, with the army condemned to moving blindly through enemy territory without the benefit of cavalry scouting or screening. It considers the lost opportunities of June 1864, when Grant's masterly movement of the Army of the Potomac across the James to confront the enemy at Petersburg should have ended in victory and the fall of Richmond.
Bungling and complacency doomed the attacks on Petersburg's fortifications, and instead of victory, the battered Federals faced a drawn-out siege, and another 10 months of war. Finally, the author considers what happened to a number of the prominent Federal participants in the Overland Campaign during the last year of the war and after. Many of those who lied and cheated their way to the top became government leaders and the authors of policy for years to come.
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This book follows the men of the 5th Corps and the Army of the Potomac through the Wilderness, Spotsylvania and Cold Harbor, with the army condemned to moving blindly through enemy territory without the benefit of cavalry scouting or screening. It considers the lost opportunities of June 1864, when Grant's masterly movement of the Army of the Potomac across the James to confront the enemy at Petersburg should have ended in victory and the fall of Richmond.
Bungling and complacency doomed the attacks on Petersburg's fortifications, and instead of victory, the battered Federals faced a drawn-out siege, and another 10 months of war. Finally, the author considers what happened to a number of the prominent Federal participants in the Overland Campaign during the last year of the war and after. Many of those who lied and cheated their way to the top became government leaders and the authors of policy for years to come.
About the Author
Diane Monroe Smith is the author of several books about the Civil War. She lives in Holden, Maine.
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COMMAND CONFLICTS IN GRANT'S OVERLAND CAMPAIGN: AMBITION AND ANIMOSITY IN THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC
By Robert A. Lynn
COMMAND CONFLICTS IN GRANT'S OVERLAND CAMPAIGN: AMBITION AND ANIMOSITY IN THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC
DIANE MONROE SMITH
MCFARLAND AND COMPANY, INC. PUBLISHING, 2013
QUALITY SOFTCOVER, $39.95, 248 PAGES, MAPS, PHOTOGRAPHS, APPENDIX, BIBLIOGRAPHY, NOTES, INDEX
The May-June, 1864 Overland Campaign against Richmond saw the most sustained and ferocious bloodletting of the entire War Between The States. From the fighting in the Wilderness on 5-6 May 1864 through Spotsylvania, Trevilian Station, North Anna, Totopotomoy Creek, Bethesda Church, Cold Harbor, and the onset of the siege of Petersbrg in mid-June, 1864, the Army of Northern Virginia suffered approximately 33,500 casualties. Losses in the Army of the Potomac and its attached units, meanwhile, approached 55,000. While the butcher's bill was enormous, the campaign ended Lee's ability to fight a war of maneuver, and forced the Army of Northern Virginia into defensive siege lines around Richmond and Petersburg that would collapse in April, 1865.
In March, 1864, President Lincoln appointed Lt. General Ulysses S. Grant to overall command of the Union Army. Grant planned multiple offensives for the spring of 1864. Primary among them was Meade advancing directly against Lee's army and Richmond, Sherman's multi-army offensive in northern Georgia, Butler's advance up the Peninsula against Richmond, Sigel's troops were to clear the Shenandoah Valley, and finally a proposed offensive against Mobile by Banks.
Grant would accompany Meade and the Army of the Potomac. Meade was to remain in command though. Re-organized prior to the opening of the Overland Campaign, it consisted of these army corps: II was led by Winfield S. Hancock, V Corps was led by Gouverneur Warren, and VI Corps was led by John Sedgwick. Sheridan would lead his cavalry. Complicating an already awkward command structure was the fact that the IX Corps, commanded by Major General Ambrose Burnside, would advance with the Army of the Potomac. Because of Burnside's seniority in rank, however, his corps would receive orders directly from Grant.
At the campaign onset, Union forces numbered about 118,000. Grant had received an estimated 64,000 additional troops during the course of the fighting, most prominently William Smith's XVIII Corps, offsetting this, however, was the loss of 20,000 men whose enlistments would expire.
Lee faced Grant's threat with fewer resources. When the Overland Campaign began, his Army of Northern Virginia, encamped south of the Rapidan River in the vicinity of Orange Court House and Gordonsville, numbered approximately 66,000, but he would receive an estimated 30,000 reinforcements during the campaign. His veteran army was divided into the following: I Corps was led by James Longstreet, II Corps was led by Richard Ewell, and III Corps by Ambrose Powell Hill, while J.E.B. Stuart led Lee's cavalry corps.
By mid-June, 1864, both armies remained in the vicinity of Cold Harbor when, in a brilliant tactical maneuver, Grant had shifted his operations south of the James River. His objective was Petersburg, possession of which would force the Confederates to abandon Richmond. Grant's plans to immediately capture Petersburg was frustrated by miscommunication and the failure of subordinates to perform effectively. Nevertheless, by the end of June, 1864, Petersburg was under siege and Lee's army had been forced into defensive earthworks that would be spread ever longer and thinner over the next ten months. The Overland Campaign, which had produced an estimated 90,000 Union and Confederate casualties, was over.
COMMAND CONFLICTS IN GRANT'S OVERLAND CAMPAIGN: AMBITION AND ANIMOSITY IN THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC is an excellant study of Grant's initial campaign in the Eastern Theater. This book provides a detailed characterization of the leading personalities in Grant's Army of the Potomac. Unfortunately, the author has made a number of errors and they are listed below:
*Page 11-Grant's early capture of Paducah, Kentucky isn't mentioned.
*Page 13-Belmont, Missouri is on the Mississippi River not the Missouri River. Also, three states don't meet there.
*Page 19-It was President Lincoln's Special Orders No. 1 not his General Orders No. 1 that caused Major General McClellan to reveal his Urbanna plan to his 12 division commanders for attacking Richmond.
*Page 35-Major General McClellan had been relieved as general-in-chief after months, not immediately, and before, not after his Peninsula Campaign.
*Page 43-Shiloh is south, not north of Savannah, Tennessee. Also, the Confederates had an estimated troop strength of 40,000 to 45,000 not 20,000 to 25,000.
*Pages 160 and 163-There was no Central and Fredericksburg but there was a Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Potomac Railroad.
*A number of maps don't adequately show troop movements and are missing a number of key locations.
Even in spite of the above mistakes, this is a book that one should read and include in their personal library on The War Between The States.
Lt. Colonel Robert A. Lynn, Florida Guard
Orlando, Florida
2 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
A fascinating read.
By Frank Varney
In this hard-hitting and controversial book, historian Diane Monroe Smith has presented a solid assessment of command conflicts during the Overland Campaign. By focusing on the intriguing personalities of the main characters in the Army of the Potomac, Smith brings Grant's command style into sharp focus. There are excellent and enlightening evaluations of James H. Wilson, John Rawlings, Philip H. Sheridan, Charles Dana, and other members of Grant's inner circle; and at times the interplay of schemes and sub-plots seems almost to mirror a modern soap opera. There is a tendency to forget how very human historical icons were, and how much even towering figures like Grant could be mired in petty jealousies and controversies. The strongest part of this book is in the latter chapters, which focus much more closely on the themes outlined in the title. The author has given us a finely-drawn picture of the ways in which a group of ambitious men can not only change important events, but how those events are remembered - particularly when they work directly for a man who was not at all averse to tinkering with the historical record himself. Diane Monroe Smith is to be commended for offering us this valuable insight.
I recommend this book for anyone with an interest in the Overland Campaign, and also for anyone interested in how history gets written.
Frank Varney
Author of General Grant and the Rewriting of History
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