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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 Manassas are covered [...]

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I’m delighted that Brett has begun comments on the content of various Civil War magazines - in my opinion, they don’t receive enough attention. I would like to talk about assessing these various publications and the criterion we use.
As many know, Civil War Times is the oldest continuously running (since 1962). CWT is [...]

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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. [...]

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I’ve been following the extremely slow progress of Walker Boys Studio’s Civil War: War Between the States with interest for quite some time now. I hadn’t been paying attention lately, believing the game to be abandonware, but fortunately that is not the case. Thanks again to the ever-scanning eyes of Eddy Sterckx over [...]

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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 near Richmond, and [...]

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The January 2006 issue is the first issue of America’s Civil War that I’ll be reviewing for this blog. ACW is of a little lower quality than North & South and Blue & Gray. It is virtually identical to Civil War Times Illustrated at this point, because both magazines are published by Primedia. There are [...]

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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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I’ve gotten away from spotlighting my favorite book publishers and game developers in recent weeks, so I thought I’d take a look at Morningside Bookshop today. I have never been disappointed in the quality of a Morningside book. These cloth-bound books are made to last, and you can tell from the moment you [...]

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The following is a review and summary of David Evans

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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 Seven Days Campaign, [...]

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