Tag: ethan s. rafuse
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Civil War Book Review: Guide to the Richmond-Petersburg Campaign
Bowery, Charles R. Jr. and Rafuse, Ethan S. Guide to the Richmond-Petersburg Campaign. (University Press of Kansas: May 2014). 420 pages, 36 illustrations, 47 maps, notes, bibliography, index. ISBN: 978-0-7006-1959-7 $39.95 (Cloth). Charles Bowery and Ethan Rafuse’s Guide to the Richmond-Petersburg Campaign is the next in a long line of U. S. Army War College […]
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Book Purchases: August 2006
I managed to pick up an interesting though smaller list of books last month. These range from fiction, to biography and semi-biography, to a tour guide, and finally to my typical battle and campaign studies. I am particularly excited to finally get my hands on Forrest at Brice’s Crossroads for a good price. I’ve already […]
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Ethan Rafuse – McClellan’s War, Part 5
After staring each other down on the 18th, with both catching a much needed breather, Lee finally withdrew his army from Sharpsburg and was able to cross the Potomac during September 19-20. Though McClellan did try to strike at Lee, most notably at Shepherdstown, Lee’s rear guard was formidable enough that officers throughout the Army […]
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Ethan Rafuse – McClellan’s War, Part 4
Although McClellan had largely stayed out of the political fray through 1862, Rafuse argued that McClellan’s most ardent supporters could not deny that McClellan actively worked to delay reinforcing Pope during the Second Manassas campaign once the Army of the Potomac was evacuated from the Peninsula. McClellan ultimately got what he wanted out of Pope’s […]