Book Categories
|
And Keep Moving On: The Virginia Campaign, May-June 1864 (Great Campaigns of the Civil War) |
Buy And Keep Moving On: The Virginia Campaign, May-June 1864 (Great Campaigns of the Civil War) here, one of 749 Civil War books offered for sale at discount prices here in the history books section at R bookshop. There are currently 82637 history books in our history books section, and over 1,000,000 books listed in our book store. We greatly appreciate your patronage at R bookshop and look forward to offering you a large selection of great books at discount prices now and in the future. Thank you for shopping at R Bookshop!
|
You Are Here: Home > History Books > Civil War > Item 124
 |
And Keep Moving On: The Virginia Campaign, May-June 1864 (Great Campaigns of the Civil War)
|
by Mark Grimsley
Sales Rank: 214080
|
List Price: $18.95
$10.81
At Amazon
on 6-23-2008.
|
|
|
|
Features
Cover Type: Paperback with 283 pages
Published by: University of Nebraska Press March 1, 2005
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0803271190
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0803271197
Book Dimensions:
8.6 x 5.7 x 1 inches
Weighs: 1 pounds
Product Review
"The six-week military campaign that began that May, energetically recounted in historian Mark Grimsley's And Keep Moving On . . . became a legendary duel. By focusing on the Wilderness, Grimsley also takes us into a moment when the Civil War battlefield - if not combat itself - was transformed."-Washington Post (Washington Post )
"Engagingly written, thoroughly researched, and thought provoking, Grimsley''s And Keep Moving On is the best single-volume history of the Overland Campaign yet published."-Gordon Rhea (Gordon Rhea )
"High quality of research, analysis, and storytelling. . . . An great synthesis of a sprawling military operation that extended well beyond the lines of Grant and Lee."-Daniel Sutherland, The Journal of Southern History (Daniel Sutherland The Journal of Southern History )
"This great book covers what is commonly referred to as Grant's Overland Campaign. . . . I enjoyed this clearly written book very much. The clear maps are helpful to the reader. . . . This one provides more than enough information for the reader on each battle, as well as the overall Virginia campaign. Though a bit pricey, I recommend this interesting book to all Civil War readers."-Duane Benell, Civil War Courier (Duane Benell Civil War Courier )
"Grimsley's work is a synthesis that includes traditional and `new' military history methodologies, typical of the Great Campaigns of the Civil War series of which is it is the latest volume. Yet Grimsley does not get bogged down with a traditional narrative. . . . Grimsley's analysis and historiographical review of the generalship of Grant and Lee are thorough and fair."-Michael B. Ballard, Journal of American History (Michael B. Ballard Journal of American History )
"An great job of coloring in the details of the severity of the hardships soldiers endured. . . . Grimsley has provided Civil War readers with a balanced, yet provocative study of the Virginia war in the spring of 1864."-Stephen Engle, The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography (Stephen Engle The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography )
"A superb overview of the 1864 Overland Campaign. . . . Grimsley has produced one of the finest operational Civil War histories in recent memory."-Major James Gates, USAF, Military Review (Major James Gates, USAF Military Review )
"A first rate campaign study that gives appropriate attention to the wide range of peripheral operations that came under Grant's and Lee's purview away from the main front. His book is clearly, sometimes graphically, written."-Brian Holden Reid, War in History (Brian Holden Reid War in History )
"Grimsley skillfully analyses the campaign's significance in his final chapter, an analysis that sets his work apart from others. . . . The series as a whole, and this title in particular, will stand the test for another hundred years."-North Carolina Historical Review (North Carolina Historical Review )
"What he achieves is an great narrative that explains theater operations against the political backdrop of the 1864 presidential election and the relationship between major battles, subsidiary offensives, diversionary raids, and naval operations that compose the overall campaign. This is the first book length work to examine the Virginia Campaign of May and June 1864 as a unified whole."-David R. Dean, H-Net Reviews (David R. Dean H-Net Reviews )
"This particular book is very interesting, featuring long chapters with lots of quotes from primary sources, several photographs from the Civil War period and several clear maps. Grimsley also supplies an annotated bibliography. . . . A good addition to any Civil War collection."-Rambles.net (Rambles.net )
"This is a fine interpretation that will be of interest to both general and scholarly audiences."-Lloyd Benson, Military History of the West (Lloyd Benson Military History of the West )
"This new paperback edition of Mark Grimsley's highly acclaimed study of the Overland campaign of 1864, a volume in the Great Campaigns of the Civil War series, brings to students and teachers of the Civil War a military narrative of uncommon intelligence and lucidity. . . . Grimsley's superb account should help bury the now-tired Lost Cause interpretation of Lee and Grant and their `duel' and allow us all to keep moving on away from older readings that defined the campaign almost wholly in terms of casualties toward a fuller understanding of the way(s) the campaign presaged the Union's modern strategy of multiple offensives that won the war."-Randall M. Miller, Civil War History (Randall M. Miller Civil War History )
Product Description
And Keep Moving On is the first book to see the Virginia campaign of spring 1864 as Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee saw it: a single, massive operation stretching hundreds of miles. The story of the campaign is also the story of the demise of two great armies. The scale of casualties and human suffering that the campaign inflicted makes it unique in U.S. history. Mark Grimsley's study, however, is not just another battle book. Grimsley places the campaign in the political context of the 1864 presidential election; appraises the motivation of soldiers; appreciates the impact of the North’s sea power advantage; questions conventional interpretations; and looks at the interconnections among the major battles, subsidiary offensives, and raids. (03/26/2007)
Reader Reviews
This review is from: And Keep Moving On: The Virginia Campaign, May-June 1864 (Great Campaigns of the Civil War) (Hardcover)
Mark Grimsley does not seek to break new ground in "And Keep Moving On: The Virginia Campaign, May - June 1864". Up front he states: "This is primarily a work of synthesis. As such, my foremost thanks are due to the authors of the specialized studies on which it is based." These specialized studies are, either through their daunting size or their limited availability, unfamiliar to most persons interested in the Civil War. Mark Grimsley has performed a valuable service for such readers by drawing upon those narrow analyses to craft a comprehensive and lucid narrative about the Overland Campaign and its associated operations. In less than 250 pages of narrative text, Grimsley covers the fundamentals of not only such grand battles as the Wilderness, Spotsylvania and Cold Harbor, but also Butler's fumbled thrust towards Richmond, cavalry raids in West Virginia, and fighting in the Shenandoah Valley. Moreover, he relates the pace of military matters to the political background (1864 was a Presidential election year in the North) and to state of civilian morale. In discussing combat, Grimsley includes sufficient first-hand detail so the reader does not lose sight of the ultimate reality that the contending armies were made up of living, breathing, dying individual soldiers. Nonetheless, the book's primary focus is on the senior commanders. Grimsley states in the preface that he "evaluated the principal leaders as sympathetically as possible, always bearing in mind that they were intelligent men who operated under extraordinary conditions and pressure ... I have encountered few historical actors - even such perennial goats as Ben Butler - for whom I could not muster at least some respect." It seems that Franz Sigel, justifiably in my opinion, fell outside the author's range of sympathy. In writing of the battle of New Market, Grimsley quotes William C. Davis with favor about that hapless officer: "Franz Sigel was not just an incompetent; he was a fool." The results of these several weeks of combat in the early summer of 1864 are presented by Grimsley as a mixture of limited success and deeper failure for both sides. Grant sought to destroy Lee's army, but he only succeeded in depriving Lee of the initiative while both armies battled each other into stumbling weariness. Lee tired to drive his enemies back from their invasion, but only managed to resist destruction while being driven back to the static defense of Richmond. In an absorbing extension of his analysis of the results of the campaign, Grimsley discusses the historical memory of these battles as filtered through the Lost Cause mythology of the post-war South, which portrays Lee as the flawless soldier of genius and Grant as the merciless butcher who wins by numbers alone. Grimsley rightly exposes such thinking as shallow and inadequate. In his acknowledgements section, Grimsley pays special tribute to Gordon Rhea who has, thus far, published five excellent volumes on the Overland Campaign. The influence of Rhea's work is clearly evident on Mark Grimsley's book (Rhea's most recent book, "Cold Harbor", was unfortunately published too late to influence "And Keep Moving On"; if it had been available, I believe Grimsley would have rejected tired conventional wisdom about Union casualty rates during that battle and instead would have followed Rhea's illuminating evaluation of the subject), but even an enthusiastic reader of Rhea's histories can find much of value in "And Keep Moving On." The narrative is delivered in an engaging, persuasive manner, moving briskly towards its conclusion without a feeling of being rushed. This volume has found a permanent spot on my crowded Civil War bookshelves, and I can only hope that Mark Grimsley some day may write a similar volume about the Petersburg campaign that followed.
Comment | |
(Report this)
Back To Top
|
And Keep Moving On: The Virginia Campaign, May-June 1864 (Great Campaigns of the Civil War)
Available from Amazon
Price: $10.81
Updated on 6-23-2008.
|
NOTICE: All prices, availability, and specifications
are subject to verification by their respective retailers.
| We offer And Keep Moving On: The Virginia Campaign, May-June 1864 (Great Campaigns of the Civil War) and other related Civil War Books here at Rbookshop.com. To view more books about Civil War please use the previous and next buttons near the top of this page.
|
|
|
Search for books at
