Tag: confederate tide rising
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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 […]
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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 […]