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Brandy Station : a battle like none other

Title: Brandy Station : a battle like none other / by Richard E. Crouch.
Author: Crouch, Richard E.
Publication: Westminster, Md. : Willow Bend Books, 2002.

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Description

xiv, 296 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-285) and index.

Contents

Brandy Station: the setting -- Brandy Station: before -- Why this battle -- The march to contact -- The surprise attack at Beverly Ford -- The second prong and the Confederate rear -- South of the railroad -- General Stuart second-pronged -- Fighting on fleetwood -- The crucial, bloody hilltop -- Fleetwood's rest changes hands -- At a place called Stevensburg -- Back and forth on Fleetwood's Crest -- Charges, confusion and dust -- Kilpatrick's charge -- Brandy Station: what happened when -- In the thick of the fight at mid-day -- The moment of crisis -- Holding Buford's force in check -- Aftermath -- Brandy Station -- afterward -- The myth and reality of the gray infantry -- General Lee on the perilous field -- And yes, there was a grand review -- Less grand review for General Lee -- Conclusion, lessons and commentary -- The Union cavalry and its making -- Why the Southern cavalry was not braver -- Brandy Station and the grand strategy of the war: Pleasonton's intelligence achievements.

ISBN

9781585497973
1585497975

LCCN

2003544574

OCLC

ocm51615526
SCSB-14188632

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library