SIEGEL : No backward step (ajánló)
In the early morning hours of May 4, 1864, the Army of the Potomac, under the direct supervision of Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant, embarked on what became the final campaign of the Civil War in Virginia. Determined to take "no backward step," Grant hammered at General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia through the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, North Anna, Cold Harbor, and Petersburg until finally compelling the Confederate commander to surrender at Appomattox Court House in April 1865.
During this final year of the war, the two armies were locked in nearly nonstop combat, resulting in thousands of casualties. In no other campaign of the Civil War was the combat so sustained nor the casualty list so great.
No Backward Step takes the visitor along these bloody routes and visits more than two hundred sites which figured prominently in the struggle. At many places, the action is described by participants, allowing the present-day visitor to know what it was like for the soldiers who fought at these sites more than 130 years earlier.
The book is organized so that travelers have the options of touring the entire campaign or a single battle. Fifty-eight maps of the march routes and major engagements show troop movements over the present-day road network as well as noting the position of each tour stop, allowing visitors to orient themselves to the action described.
For those traveling the new Virginia Civil War Trails of Grant's Campaign and Lee's Retreat, this work is a fine companion volume which gives more in-depth descriptions to many of the sites encountered and will assist in a better understanding of the events which reunited the country.
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