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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797957803321

Autore

Gottfried Bradley M.

Titolo

The maps of the wilderness : an atlas of the wilderness campaign, including all cavalry operations, May 2-6, 1864 / / Bradley M. Gottfried

Pubbl/distr/stampa

El Dorado Hills, California : , : Savas Beatie, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-61121-259-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (345 p.)

Collana

Savas Beatie Military Atlas Series

Disciplina

973.70223

Soggetti

United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Maps

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction ; Map Set 1: Preparing for a New Kind of War; Map Set 2: The Armies Approach the Wilderness; Map Set 3: The Armies Come into Contact (May 5); Map Set 4: The Fight for Saunders Field (May 5); Map Set 5: Wadsworth's Division Enters the Fight (May 5); Map Set 6: Wright's Division Engages the Confederate Left (May 5); Map Set 7:  The Attack is Renewed Against the Confederate Left (May 5); Map Set 8:  The Orange Plank Road:Getty and Heth Battle for the Crossroads (May 5); Map Set 9:  Getty is Reinforced on the Orange Plank Road (May 5)

Map Set 10:  Wilcox's Division and the Rest ofHancock's II Corps Enter the Fight (May 5)Map Set 11:  Afternoon Cavalry Actions (May 5); Map Set 12: May 5 Fighting Ends,and the Armies Prepare for May 6; Map Set 13: Fighting Begins on the Union Right (May 6); Map Set 14:  Hancock Strikes A. P. Hill's Third Corps (May 6); Map Set 15:  Longstreet Reaches the Battlefield (May 6); Map Set 16: Longstreet CounterattacksNorth of the Orange Plank Road; Map Set 17: Longstreet Counterattacks South of the Orange Plank Road; Map Set 18: Cavalry Action Along the Brock Road

Map Set 19: Federal Command ConfusionMap Set 20: Longstreet Assaults Hancock's Left Flank; Map Set 21: Burnside Finally Hits the Gap; Map Set 22: Final Actions on the Federal Left; Map Set 23: Gordon Attacks the Federal Right Flank(6:00 a.m. - 10:30 p.m.); Map Set 24: The Battle Ends (May 6 - May 7, 1864); Appendix: Orders of Battle; Endnotes; Bibliography; Index