Tag: joseph l. harsh
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Confederate Tide Rising, Part 6
Confederate Tide Rising: Robert E. Lee and the Making of Southern Strategy, 1861-1862 by Joseph L. Harsh “Richmond was never so safe”: Lee Evolves a Border Strategy, August 9-26, 1862 Lee was in an unenviable strategic position, with Jackson confronting Pope on the left flank near Culpeper Court House, Lee confronting McClellan on the right […]
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Confederate Tide Rising, Part 5
Lee had succeeded in driving McClellan away from Richmond, but in doing so, he found himself in an unenviable strategic situation in early July 1862.
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Confederate Tide Rising, Part 4
Confederate Tide Rising: Robert E. Lee and the Making of Southern Strategy, 1861-1862 by Joseph L. Harsh Chapter 3 – “How do we get at those people?”: Lee’s Strategy in the Seven Days Campaign, June 1-July 2, 1862 In Chapter 3, Harsh narrows focus even more to take a look at Lee’s strategy during the […]
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Confederate Tide Rising, Part 3
Chapter 2 – “It would change the character of the war”: The Ascent of Lee, to June 1, 1862 In the first chapter of Confederate Tide Rising, Joseph Harsh covered Confederate strategy for the beginning of the war to the Battle of Seven Pines. In chapter 2, Harsh narrows his focus to Robert E. Lee, […]
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Confederate Tide Rising, Part 2
This first chapter discusses Confederate strategy from the beginning of the war until Lee ascended to the command of the Army of Northern Virginia after the wounding of Joseph Johnston.
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Confederate Tide Rising: Robert E. Lee and the Making of Southern Strategy, 1861-1862, Part 1
Confederate Tide Rising: Robert E. Lee and the Making of Southern Strategy, 1861-1862 by Joseph L. Harsh I recently purchased the three books of Joseph Harsh’s trilogy dealing with Confederate strategy during from the beginning of the war to the end of the Maryland Campaign in September 1862. The first of the trilogy, Confederate Tide […]
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Joe Harsh and Confederate PFD Strengths in September, 1862
I’ve always been interested in Present for Duty (hereafter referred to as PFD) strengths of various units during the war, just due to my own curiosity and also due to my hobby of wargaming the Civil War. One area in particular along these lines involves the Maryland Campaign of 1862, culminating in the Battle of […]