Comments on: After an Exchange of Punts… http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/2007/10/28/after-an-exchange-of-punts%e2%80%a6/ A Journal of the Digitization of a Civil War Battle Thu, 23 May 2013 14:38:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Harry Smeltzer http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/2007/10/28/after-an-exchange-of-punts%e2%80%a6/#comment-2446 Thu, 08 Nov 2007 17:18:47 +0000 http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/2007/10/28/after-an-exchange-of-punts%e2%80%a6/#comment-2446 Pete,

So, Lindsay Nelson was ripping off Fletcher Pratt? Whodathunk?

You can find Howard series books on Mine Run and Bristoe Station, but as far as I know A. A. Humphreys’ From Gettysburg to the Rapidan is the only thing that covers the whole period.

See my new post on Meade’s house – with pictures.

Harry

]]> By: Pete Peterson http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/2007/10/28/after-an-exchange-of-punts%e2%80%a6/#comment-2445 Thu, 08 Nov 2007 16:27:51 +0000 http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/2007/10/28/after-an-exchange-of-punts%e2%80%a6/#comment-2445 The first Civil War book I ever read was Fletcher Pratt’s “Short History of the Civil War” (original title: Ordeal by Fire when first published in 1935; Macpherson was not the first person to call a war history that. But I digress) He has a chapter on the Mine Run campaign (for want of a better term) that ends with the phrase (from memory here) “and the game was declared a draw after an exchange of pawns. The war went on.”
Next read Bruce Catton’s history of the Army of the Potomac, 3 volumes. The second volume ends after Gettysburg. The third starts with Grant getting ready for the Overland campaign. What’s missing here? If there’s a good study of this campaign (at my level of understanding) I’d love to see it.
PS: On our way out of PHL yesterday we drove right past Meade’s house at 19th and Delancey St, with historical marker outside. I’ve always (since I started reading and forming my own opinions) admired Meade for simply keeping his head together at Gettysburg; without good corps commanders it’s hard to see how he could have quickly organized the counterattack at Gettysburg that a lot of people think he should have made. . .digressing again

]]> By: Scott Smart http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/2007/10/28/after-an-exchange-of-punts%e2%80%a6/#comment-2425 Mon, 05 Nov 2007 16:54:15 +0000 http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/2007/10/28/after-an-exchange-of-punts%e2%80%a6/#comment-2425 This is a period also of interest to me, esp the planning and effect of sending the troops to NYC as well as Hooker/Longstreet going west.

]]> By: Other Blog, Same Topic « Bull Runnings http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/2007/10/28/after-an-exchange-of-punts%e2%80%a6/#comment-2419 Sun, 04 Nov 2007 16:22:43 +0000 http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/2007/10/28/after-an-exchange-of-punts%e2%80%a6/#comment-2419 [...] the paucity of analysis of the war in the east from summer 1863 to spring 1864, as discussed here.  Check it out – read the comments to that post and you’ll find one by me, pre-Bull [...]

]]> By: Brooks Simpson http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/2007/10/28/after-an-exchange-of-punts%e2%80%a6/#comment-2412 Sat, 03 Nov 2007 05:53:01 +0000 http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/2007/10/28/after-an-exchange-of-punts%e2%80%a6/#comment-2412 I think you would be interested in this …

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