During the summer of 1862; a Confederate resurgence threatened to turn the tide of the Civil War. When the Union’s earlier multitheater thrust into the South proved to be a strategic overreach; the Confederacy saw its chance to reverse the loss of the Upper South through counteroffensives from the Chesapeake to the Mississippi. Benjamin Franklin Cooling tells this story in Counter-Thrust; recounting in riveting detail Robert E. Lee’s flouting of his antagonist George B. McClellan’s drive to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond and describing the Confederate hero’s long-dreamt-of offensive to reclaim central and northern Virginia before crossing the Potomac.Counter-Thrust also provides a window into the Union’s internal conflict; which hampered building a successful military leadership team during this defining period. Cooling shows us Lincoln’s administration in disarray; with relations between the president and field commander McClellan strained to the breaking point. He also shows how the fortunes of war shifted abruptly in the Union’s favor; climaxing at Antietam with the bloodiest single day in American history—and in Lincoln’s decision to announce a preliminary emancipation proclamation. Here in all its gritty detail and considerable depth is a critical moment in the unfolding of the Civil War and American history.
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