Tag: joseph l. harsh
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Taken At The Flood, Part 2
Taken At The Flood: Robert E. Lee & Confederate Strategy in the Maryland Campaign of 1862 by Joseph L. Harsh Chapter 1 “We cannot afford to be idle”, Lee’s Strategic Dilemma, September 2-3, 1862 Chapter 1 is all about decisions. Lee had driven the Union forces under John Pope back into the fortifications surrounding Washington, […]
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Another View Of Harsh’s Taken At The Flood
I was reading through one of Dimitri Rotov’s archived posts on South Mountain today when quite by accident I stumbled on a link to blogger Mitch Hagmaier’s excellent Blogfonte site. Dimitri had linked to Mitch’s post concerning South Mountain, but I also found a post from the same time frame giving Mitch’s thoughts on the […]
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Confederate Tide Rising, Part 8
Intermezzo, Appendices, and Final Thoughts In this final blog entry on Joseph Harsh’s Confederate Tide Rising, I will cover what Harsh calls “The Chantilly Fumble” in his Intermezzo between this book and Taken At The Flood, I will relay what information Harsh provides in six interesting appendices (sort of a forefrunner of the cornucopia of […]
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Confederate Tide Rising, Part 7
Confederate Tide Rising: Robert E. Lee and the Making of Southern Strategy, 1861-1862 by Joseph L. Harsh “If we expect to reap advantage”: Lee Pursues Total Victory, August 27-31, 1862 Jackson’s famous flanking march around Pope’s army, his destruction of the massive number of Union stores at Manassas Junction, and the resulting Battle of Second […]
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Jackson At Brawner’s Farm: Mistake or Blessing In Disguise?
Chapter Five of Joseph Harsh’s Confederate Tide Rising focuses on the strategic chess match between Robert E. Lee and John Pope from August 9 to August 26, 1862. In this chapter, Harsh repeatedly maintains that Lee never intended Jackson to bring on a major engagement after cutting Pope’s supply line at Bristoe Station. Instead, Harsh […]