No Turning Back: A Guide to the 1864 Overland Campaign, from the Wilderness to Cold Harbor, May 4 - June 13, 1864 (Emerging Civil War)

by David R. Ruth, Donald C Pfanz, and Robert M. Dunkerly

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“[T]here will be no turning back,” said Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant. It was May, 1864. The Civil War had dragged into its fourth spring. It was time to end things, Grant resolved, once and for all.

With the Union Army of the Potomac as his sledge, Grant crossed the Rapidan River, intending to draw the Army of Northern Virginia into one final battle. Short of that, he planned“to hammer continuously against the armed forces of the enemy and his resources, until by mere attrition, if in no other way, there should be nothing left to him ....Read more
  • ISBN10 161121193X
  • ISBN13 9781611211931
  • Publish Date 31 August 2016
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Savas Beatie
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 192
  • Language English