Counter-Thrust: From the Peninsula to the Antietam

by Benjamin Franklin Cooling III

Book Overview

During the summer of 1862, a Confederate resurgence threatened to turn the tide of the Civil War. When the Union's earlier multitheater thrust into the South proved to be a strategic overreach, the Confederacy saw its chance to reverse the loss of the Upper South through counteroffensives from the Chesapeake to the Mississippi. Benjamin Franklin Cooling tells this story in Counter-Thrust , recounting in harrowing detail Robert E. Lee's flouting of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803271727
• ISBN13: 9780803271722
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.6" x 8.8"