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<blockquote data-quote="Tolkien R.R.J" data-source="post: 73979422" data-attributes="member: 411644"><p><strong>Lee vs Grant</strong>-<strong>Wilderness</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p>During the battle of the wilderness Longstreet was injured preparing for a surprise flank on the federals. Lee did not trust Longstreet inexperience replacement Anderson to accomplish the flanking maneuver, so Lee instead ordered and tactically controlled a frontal assault on fortified union lines that failed and was repulsed with heavy losses. Had Longstreet's flanking maneuver been carried out by Lee or Anderson, the Wilderness may very well have been a major defeat for the union and severed there supply forcing a retreat. </p><p></p><p><strong>Spotsyvania</strong></p><p></p><p>During the battles Grant, not Lee was able to maintain the intuitive, besides minor attack on Grants flanks that caused no real change to the battle. At one point Lee thought Grant was retreating from the Muleshoe and Lee removed the artillery as he thought there was no longer a threat to the area. This allowed the major union success and breakthrough of the battle at the Muleshoe where federals captured thousands of confederates.</p><p></p><p></p><p><strong>Petersburg</strong></p><p></p><p>“<em>During the Petersburg campaign Grant outmaneuvered Lee from start to finish....by exploiting Lee's preoccupation with the safety of Richmond”</em></p><p><em>-John Horn the great Campaign Series Pettersburg </em></p><p></p><p>Grant was ableto cross the James river, yet Lee did nothing. Despite the warning of Beauregard, despite 2 federal corps attacking, and holes punched through the entrenched confederate lines. Lee was slow to react after Grants move across the river “Lee was not yet convinced that Grant had crossed the James.” Lucky for Lee, Grant was slow to send Burnside's army of the James and Meade to take advantage of lees slow reaction.</p><p></p><p>During the siege grant was able to maintain the insinuative, use faint attacks in one area to send the main attack in another. He was able to pin down Lee's men, replace units on the line, move men behind the lines for large attacks making it hard for Lee to respond. He was able to tighten the noose around Lee's army cutting roads, bridges, and rail lines and finally with an all-out assault that broke the Peterburg lines in multiple places. Lee was forced to retreat and gave up Peterburg and the confederate capital of Richmond. </p><p></p><p></p><p><strong>Appomattox</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p>Lee was unable to distance himself from Grant and Sheridan on his retreat from Appomattox. His tired, worn out army was fading fast from desertion and casualties. Grant and Sherman cut off Lee's retreat to North Carolina and forced his surrender of the confederacies largest army. Around 28,000 men were surrendered to Grant by lee at Appomattox. Grant had defeated Lee.</p><p></p><p></p><p><strong>References</strong></p><p>-Great Campaigns Jackson's Valley Campaign David G Martin Combined Books PA 1994</p><p><strong>-</strong>Great Campaigns The Peninsula Campaign David G Martin Combined Books PA 1992</p><p><strong>-</strong>Great Campaigns The Shiloh Campaign David G Martin Combined Books PA 1996</p><p>-Great Campaigns The Second Bull Run Campaighn David G Martin Combined Books PA 1997</p><p>-Great Campaigns The Antietam Campaign John Cannon Combined Books PA</p><p>-Great Campaigns The Chancellorsville campaign David G Martin Combined Books PA 1991</p><p>-Great Campaigns the Atlanta campaign John Cannan Combined Books PA 1991</p><p>-Great Campaigns The Wilderness campaign John cannon Combined Books PA -Great Campaigns The Spotsylvania John Cannan Campaign Combined Books PA</p><p>-Great Campaigns The Petersburg Campaign John Horn Combined Books PA</p><p>-Great Campaigns The Appomattox Campaign Chris M Calkins Combined Books PA</p><p>-The Shenandoah in Flames The Valley Campaign of 1864 Thomas A Lewis Time Life Books Alexandria, Virginia</p><p>-Battles for Atlanta Sherman Moves East Ronald H Bailey Time-Life Books, Alexandria, Virginia 1985</p><p>-Rebel Resurgent Frederiscksburg to Chancellorsville Willliam K Goolrick Time life Books, Alexandria, Virginia William K Goolrick 1985</p><p>-Receding Tide Vicksburg and Gettysburg the Campaigns That changed the civil war Edwin C Bearess and J Parker Hills National Geographic D.C 2010</p><p><strong>-</strong>Thomas J Rowland George B Mcclellan and Civil war History in the Shadow of grant and Sherman Kent State University Press 1998</p><p>-Six Armies in Tennessee the Chickamagua and Chattanooga Campaigns Steven E Woodworth University of Nebraska press 1998</p><p>John J Hennessy The first battle of Manassas Stackpole Books 2015</p><p>-Such Troops as these The Genius and Leadership of confederate General Stonewall Jackson Bevin Alexander Berkeley Caliber 2014</p><p>-How the South Could Have Won the Civil War: The Fatal Errors That Led to Confederate Defeat Bevin Alexander 2008 Crown Forum</p><p>-<em>-S.C Gwynne Rebel Yell The Violence, Passion and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson Simon and Schuster 2014</em></p><p>-Personal Memoirs of U.S Grant Da Capo Press 2001</p><p>-The North Anna campaign <a href="http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/northanna/north-anna-history-articles/northannarhea.html?referrer=https://www.google.com/" target="_blank">North Anna Campaign</a> --The Confederate war Gary Gallagher Harvard University press 1999 -A History of the south the Confederate States of America E Merton Coulter Louisiana State Press 1950</p><p>-James V Murfin Battlefields of the Civil war -Battle Tactics of the Civil war Paddy Griffith Yale university Press 1989 -The Rifel Musket in Civil war Combat Reality and Myth Earl J Hess University of Kansas Press 2008</p><p>-The Civil war Ken Burns PBS documentary</p><p>-America's Civil war Magazine <a href="http://www.historynet.com/americas-civil-war" target="_blank">http://www.historynet.com/americas-civil-war</a></p><p>-Civil war Trust <a href="http://www.civilwar.org/" target="_blank">Home</a></p><p>Gary Gallagher the American civil war great courses in modern history lecture series Teaching company 2000 </p><p>--James McPherson Gettysburg Turner Publishing inc Atlanta 1993</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tolkien R.R.J, post: 73979422, member: 411644"] [B]Lee vs Grant[/B]-[B]Wilderness[/B] During the battle of the wilderness Longstreet was injured preparing for a surprise flank on the federals. Lee did not trust Longstreet inexperience replacement Anderson to accomplish the flanking maneuver, so Lee instead ordered and tactically controlled a frontal assault on fortified union lines that failed and was repulsed with heavy losses. Had Longstreet's flanking maneuver been carried out by Lee or Anderson, the Wilderness may very well have been a major defeat for the union and severed there supply forcing a retreat. [B]Spotsyvania[/B] During the battles Grant, not Lee was able to maintain the intuitive, besides minor attack on Grants flanks that caused no real change to the battle. At one point Lee thought Grant was retreating from the Muleshoe and Lee removed the artillery as he thought there was no longer a threat to the area. This allowed the major union success and breakthrough of the battle at the Muleshoe where federals captured thousands of confederates. [B]Petersburg[/B] “[I]During the Petersburg campaign Grant outmaneuvered Lee from start to finish....by exploiting Lee's preoccupation with the safety of Richmond” -John Horn the great Campaign Series Pettersburg [/I] Grant was ableto cross the James river, yet Lee did nothing. Despite the warning of Beauregard, despite 2 federal corps attacking, and holes punched through the entrenched confederate lines. Lee was slow to react after Grants move across the river “Lee was not yet convinced that Grant had crossed the James.” Lucky for Lee, Grant was slow to send Burnside's army of the James and Meade to take advantage of lees slow reaction. During the siege grant was able to maintain the insinuative, use faint attacks in one area to send the main attack in another. He was able to pin down Lee's men, replace units on the line, move men behind the lines for large attacks making it hard for Lee to respond. He was able to tighten the noose around Lee's army cutting roads, bridges, and rail lines and finally with an all-out assault that broke the Peterburg lines in multiple places. Lee was forced to retreat and gave up Peterburg and the confederate capital of Richmond. [B]Appomattox[/B] Lee was unable to distance himself from Grant and Sheridan on his retreat from Appomattox. His tired, worn out army was fading fast from desertion and casualties. Grant and Sherman cut off Lee's retreat to North Carolina and forced his surrender of the confederacies largest army. Around 28,000 men were surrendered to Grant by lee at Appomattox. Grant had defeated Lee. [B]References[/B] -Great Campaigns Jackson's Valley Campaign David G Martin Combined Books PA 1994 [B]-[/B]Great Campaigns The Peninsula Campaign David G Martin Combined Books PA 1992 [B]-[/B]Great Campaigns The Shiloh Campaign David G Martin Combined Books PA 1996 -Great Campaigns The Second Bull Run Campaighn David G Martin Combined Books PA 1997 -Great Campaigns The Antietam Campaign John Cannon Combined Books PA -Great Campaigns The Chancellorsville campaign David G Martin Combined Books PA 1991 -Great Campaigns the Atlanta campaign John Cannan Combined Books PA 1991 -Great Campaigns The Wilderness campaign John cannon Combined Books PA -Great Campaigns The Spotsylvania John Cannan Campaign Combined Books PA -Great Campaigns The Petersburg Campaign John Horn Combined Books PA -Great Campaigns The Appomattox Campaign Chris M Calkins Combined Books PA -The Shenandoah in Flames The Valley Campaign of 1864 Thomas A Lewis Time Life Books Alexandria, Virginia -Battles for Atlanta Sherman Moves East Ronald H Bailey Time-Life Books, Alexandria, Virginia 1985 -Rebel Resurgent Frederiscksburg to Chancellorsville Willliam K Goolrick Time life Books, Alexandria, Virginia William K Goolrick 1985 -Receding Tide Vicksburg and Gettysburg the Campaigns That changed the civil war Edwin C Bearess and J Parker Hills National Geographic D.C 2010 [B]-[/B]Thomas J Rowland George B Mcclellan and Civil war History in the Shadow of grant and Sherman Kent State University Press 1998 -Six Armies in Tennessee the Chickamagua and Chattanooga Campaigns Steven E Woodworth University of Nebraska press 1998 John J Hennessy The first battle of Manassas Stackpole Books 2015 -Such Troops as these The Genius and Leadership of confederate General Stonewall Jackson Bevin Alexander Berkeley Caliber 2014 -How the South Could Have Won the Civil War: The Fatal Errors That Led to Confederate Defeat Bevin Alexander 2008 Crown Forum -[I]-S.C Gwynne Rebel Yell The Violence, Passion and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson Simon and Schuster 2014[/I] -Personal Memoirs of U.S Grant Da Capo Press 2001 -The North Anna campaign [URL="http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/northanna/north-anna-history-articles/northannarhea.html?referrer=https://www.google.com/"]North Anna Campaign[/URL] --The Confederate war Gary Gallagher Harvard University press 1999 -A History of the south the Confederate States of America E Merton Coulter Louisiana State Press 1950 -James V Murfin Battlefields of the Civil war -Battle Tactics of the Civil war Paddy Griffith Yale university Press 1989 -The Rifel Musket in Civil war Combat Reality and Myth Earl J Hess University of Kansas Press 2008 -The Civil war Ken Burns PBS documentary -America's Civil war Magazine [URL]http://www.historynet.com/americas-civil-war[/URL] -Civil war Trust [URL="http://www.civilwar.org/"]Home[/URL] Gary Gallagher the American civil war great courses in modern history lecture series Teaching company 2000 --James McPherson Gettysburg Turner Publishing inc Atlanta 1993 [/QUOTE]
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