Dodge, a Union veteran turned military historian, examines in detail the campaign in which Hooker’s Army of the Potomac was outmanoeuvred by Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia. He weighs the condition of both armies, the cavalry raid, the feint and the real move, Jackson’s flank attack, and the stigma cast upon Howard’s Eleventh Corps.
A classic campaign study for Civil War readers who want the tactics as well as the drama. Download the free EPUB.