Battle of Big Bethel: Crucial Clash in Early Civil War Virginia
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Название: Battle of Big Bethel: Crucial Clash in Early Civil War Virginia
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Автор: J. Michael Cobb
Год выпуска: 2013
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 14,5 МБ
ISBN: 436771513707
Язык: Английский
СКАЧАТЬ Battle of Big Bethel: Crucial Clash in Early Civil War Virginia БЕСПЛАТНО EPUB - DOC - DJVU - RTF - PDFОписание: Battle of Big Bethel: Crucial Clash in Early Civil War Virginia by J. Michael Cobb, Edward B. Hicks, and Wythe Holt is the first full-length treatment of the small but consequential June 10, 1861, battle that reshaped both Northern and Southern perceptions about what lay in store for the divided nation.In the spring of 1861, many people in the North and South imagined that the Civil War would be short and nearly bloodless. The first planned engagement of the war at Big Bethel, however, provided undeniable evidence of just how wrong popular opinion could be.
Major General Benjamin F. Butler was in command of Union forces at Fort Monroe, Virginia, at the tip of the peninsula between the James and York rivers only ninety miles from the Confederate capital at Richmond. Thanks to the foresight of Lt. Gen. Winfield Scott, President Abraham Lincoln’s elderly chief military adviser, thousands of troops had been assigned to Butler to protect the fort and eventually threaten Richmond, thus perhaps bringing a quick end to the war.