A Single Grand Victory is a highly readable, concise, comprehensive narrative of the first major battle of the Civil War. Rafuse served as park historien at Bull Run, where he gained great familiarity with the site and the literature on this battle. His book incorporates insights offered in recent scholarship on Civil War military, political, and cultural history. The author describes the factors that led President Abraham Lincoln to order an offensive against Confederates at Manassas Junction at a time when his most prominent military men advised against it. The war policies of both the...
A Single Grand Victory is a highly readable, concise, comprehensive narrative of the first major battle of the Civil War. Rafuse served as park histor...
This volume is the essential guide to the Manassas battlefields, site of two of the Civil War s critical campaigns. Ethan S. Rafuse, a distinguished scholar of the Civil War, provides a clearly organized, thorough, and uniquely insightful account of both campaigns, along with expert analysis and precise directions for armchair traveler and battlefield visitor alike.
The July 1861 Battle of First Manassas and the August 1862 Battle of Second Manassas unequivocally influenced the course and outcome of the Civil War. The first battle dealt a decisive blow to hopes that the...
This volume is the essential guide to the Manassas battlefields, site of two of the Civil War s critical campaigns. Ethan S. Rafuse, a distinguishe...
The outcomes of campaigns in the Civil War often depended on top generals having the right corps commanders in the right place at the right time. Mutual trust and respect between generals and their corps commanders, though vital to military success, was all too rare: Corps commanders were often forced to exercise considerable discretion in the execution of orders from their generals, and bitter public arguments over commanders' performances in battle followed hard on the heels of many major engagements. Controversies that arose during the war around the decisions of corps and army...
The outcomes of campaigns in the Civil War often depended on top generals having the right corps commanders in the right place at the right time. Mutu...