Bloody Spring: Forty Days that Sealed the Confederacy's Fate, by Joseph Wheelan
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In the spring of 1864, Robert E. Lee faced a new adversary: Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant. Named commander of all Union armies in March, Grant quickly went on the offensive against Lee in Virginia. On May 4, Grant’s army struck hard across the Rapidan River into north-central Virginia, with Lee’s army contesting every mile. They fought for forty days until, finally, the Union army crossed the James River and began the siege of Petersburg.The campaign cost more than 100,000 men—the largest loss the war had seen. While Grant lost nearly twice as many men as Lee did, he could replace them. Lee could not, and he would never again mount a major offensive. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox less than a year later was the denouement of the drama begun in those crucial forty days.
Bloody Spring: Forty Days that Sealed the Confederacy's Fate, by Joseph Wheelan- Amazon Sales Rank: #2118419 in Books
- Brand: Wheelan, Joseph
- Published on: 2015-03-03
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.40" h x 1.30" w x 5.60" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 448 pages
Review Wall Street Journal"[Wheelan's] prose fairly gallops across the page."Seattle Times"Well-written, diligently researched, and highly readable"Kirkus Reviews“Well-researched and argued—a text that Civil War scholars and buffs will consume with glee.”Roanoke Times“Entertaining and informative”Civil War Roundtable of Washington, DC“In clear, concise, journalistic prose, filled with energetic verbs and colorful adjectives, Wheelan vividly recreates those critical days that permanently turned the tide of the war in the East. [The author’s] rock-solid research and instructive anecdotes put events and personalities into a context that brings clarity to the bloodiest spring of the war.”Blue & Gray Magazine, Vol. XXXI, #6“The writing is crisp and flows; the narrative is detailed…A good introductory volume to the six weeks that were the beginning of the end of the Confederacy.”
About the Author Joseph Wheelan is the author of six previous books, including the highly acclaimed Terrible Swift Sword and Jefferson’s War. Before turning to write books full time, Wheelan was a reporter and editor for The Associated Press for twenty-four years. He lives in Cary, North Carolina.
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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful. Superb Book By Longstreet As a longtime Civil War buff, I greatly enjoyed “Bloody Spring” from beginning to end. Along with providing an enormous amount of important detail and character background of those involved in the conflict, Wheelan is a truly gifted writer who makes every moment come alive. Coming from a family who was actively involved on both sides of the war, I have read an enormous number of books on the Civil War; and, this being said, I feel “Bloody Spring” is one of the best I have come across in quite some time.
30 of 37 people found the following review helpful. GRANT VS LEE By Joseph Key Napoleon vs Wellington at Waterloo has produced tons of books with many more probably coming next year on the 200'th anniversary. You would think the heavyweight matchup between Lee and Grant, by far the two best generals of the Civil War would generate a similar wealth of books, but not so. Given that their first meeting featured two of the most bloodiest battles of the war would only add spice to the mixture. Granted Gordon C. Rhea's magisterial four volume history covering The Overland Campaign up to Cold Harbor is the definitive work on the subject, but like most multi-volume history's it can sometimes be too much of a good thing and you sometime long for a more digestible one volume work. Yet the list of one volume works on this slugfest are very slim indeed.Most of them like Mr. Wheelan recent contribution which is a very weak one at that.I don't mean to disparage all the work Mr. Wheelan evidently put into this work, but it comes across like one of those series books like the T-L series of works on the Civil War or U. of Neb. series, where the writer has serious constraints on him in regards to book length, though without the cartographic support those publishers provided. There are all off five maps in this book covering this complicated campaign. One general map showing the movements of the whole campaign. Two on the wilderness battle and one each on Spotsylvania, North Anna and Cold Harbor.This is a book for those with a casual interest in the Civil War. There is nothing here for a serious Civil War buff. For the longest I was hoping that Stephen Sears would turn his magic to this campaign, but I guess that's not going to happen. So I wait for some author to give this heavyweight fight the one volume history this campaign deserves.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful. Worth the Read By Eric C. Evans BLOODY SPRING:FORTY DAYS THAT SEALED THE CONFEDERACY’S FATE by Joseph Wheelan, is a good book recommended for readers interested in a short overview of the Overland Campaign (also called the Wilderness Campaign and The Forty Days).Volumes have been written about each one of the battles covered in this book and in some cases volumes have been written about a single day in some of these battles. So moderately serious Civil War buffs will not find much new information here. Certainly any such reader will understand that this campaign resulted in the one outcome that Lee could not survive: a siege. And, as alluded to in the the title, that sealed the Confederacy’s fate.Still, Mr. Wheelan does not simply rehash the mainstream views in all cases and at a couple of points he does stray interestingly afield.One area on which Mr. Wheelen focuses some significant attention, and to good advantage, is illustrating that, even though the North had more human resources to draw upon in replacing its casualties, the caliber of the draftees at this point in the war that replaced the yankee wounded and killed was nowhere near that of the soldiers they were replacing. This important point is often lost when considering the toll these battles took. Mr. Wheelan is at his most persuasive here. Of course, replacements of any kind, subpar as they may have been, were far superior to none at all and that was the situation the South confronted.The chapter on Cold Harbor is the strongest part of the book. Mr. Wheelan is harsh in his treatment of Grant’s conduct of this battle, but not as harsh as many historians. He does agree that the final Union assault was a doomed and futile effort which should not have been made. But he also makes the argument that Grant’s casualties were not disproportional to other battles in this campaign and are often presented and considered out of context.Additionally, after reading Mr. Wheelan’s account of the protracted truce negotiations between Lee and Grant at Cold Harbor so Grant could attend to his wounded, I could not help but think that Lee was fortunate that Grant was not as punctilious with him at Appomattox as he was with Grant on this occasion.I enjoyed BLOODY SPRING and recommend it to casual Civil War buffs and to those who are new to this period.
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