ebooks Imagining the Creole City: The Rise of Literary Culture in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans by Walter Harrison in History

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Gordon Rhea's gripping fourth volume on the spring 1864 campaign-which pitted Ulysses S. Grant against Robert E. Lee for the first time in the Civil War-vividly re-creates the battles and maneuvers from the stalemate on the North Anna River through the Cold Harbor offensive. Cold Harbor: Grant and Lee; May 26-June 3; 1864 showcases Rhea's tenacious research which elicits stunning new facts from the records of a phase oddly ignored or mythologized by historians. In clear and profuse tactical detail; Rhea tracks the remarkable events of those nine days; giving a surprising new interpretation of the famous battle that left seven thousand Union casualties and only fifteen hundred Confederate dead or wounded. Here; Grant is not a callous butcher; and Lee does not wage a perfect fight. Within the pages of Cold Harbor; Rhea separates fact from fiction in a charged; evocative narrative. He leaves readers under a moonless sky; with Grant pondering the eastward course of the James River fifteen miles south of the encamped armies.