by Theodore Dodge
274 pgs.

Classic study first published in 1881 provides unsparing analysis and astute interpretation of the battle in which the author was personally involved, as part of the Union forces’ Eleventh Corps.

Theodore Ayrault Dodge (28 May 1842 – 1909) was a Union officer in the American Civil War and a military historian of both that war and of the great generals of ancient and European history. He was considered by his contemporaries, as well as several other historians, to be the greatest American military historian of the nineteenth century.

Born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, he received a military education in Berlin and attended University College London and Heidelberg University. Returning to the United States in 1861, he promptly enlisted as a private in the New York volunteer infantry. Over the course of the Civil War, he rose to the rank of brevet lieutenant-colonel, losing his right leg at the Battle of Gettysburg. He served at the War Department from 1864 and was commissioned in the regular army in 1866. In 1870 he retired with the rank of major. Following retirement he lived in Boston until moving to Paris, where he died. He is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.

Dodge married Jane Marshall Neil in 1865 and Clara Isabel Bowden in 1893. His works on the Civil War include The Campaign of Chancellorsville (1881) and Bird's Eye View of the Civil War (1883). From 1890 to 1907 he also published twelve volumes of his History of the Art of War: Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, Gustavus Adolphus, Frederick the Great, Napoleon, although the volumes on Frederick the Great were not completed before his death. The work has been broken up into individual biographies for modern publication. In addition, his military journal, covering his time with the Army of the Potomac from the Seven Days Battles to Gettysburg, has recently been compiled and published by noted historian Stephen W. Sears under the title On Campaign with the Army of the Potomac: The Civil War Journal of Theodore Ayrault Dodge.

Source: Wikipedia

CONTENTS.

        I.  INTRODUCTION
       II.  CONDITION OF THE COMBATANTS
      III.  HOOKER AND THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC
       IV.  THE ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA
        V.  DIFFICULTY OF AN ATTACK
       VI.  THE PROPOSED CAVALRY RAID
      VII.  THE FEINT BY THE LEFT WING
     VIII.  THE REAL MOVE BY THE RIGHT WING
       IX.  LEE'S INFORMATION AND MOVEMENTS
        X.  HOOKER'S ADVANCE FRIDAY
       XI.  POSITION AT CHANCELLORSVILLE
      XII.  JACKSON'S MARCH AND SICKLES'S ADVANCE
     XIII.  HOOKER'S THEORIES AND CHANCES
      XIV.  POSITION OF THE ELEVENTH CORPS
       XV.  SITUATION AT SIX O'CLOCK
      XVI.  JACKSON'S ATTACK
     XVII.  CONDUCT OF THE ELEVENTH CORPS
    XVIII.  HOOKER'S PARRY
      XIX.  THE MIDNIGHT ATTACK
       XX.  STONEWALL JACKSON
      XXI.  POSTION AT FAIRVIEW
     XXII.  THE FIGHT AT FAIRVIEW
    XXIII.  THE LEFT CENTRE
     XXIV.  THE NEW LINES
      XXV.  SUNDAY'S MISCARRIAGE
     XXVI.  SEDGWICK'S CHANGE OF ORDERS
    XXVII.  SEDGWICK'S ASSAULT
   XXVIII.  SEDGWICK MARCHES TOWARD HOOKER
     XXIX.  SALEM CHURCH
      XXX.  SEDGWICK IN DIFFICULTY
     XXXI.  SEDGWICK WITHDRAWS
    XXXII.  HOOKER'S CRITICISMS
   XXXIII.  HOOKER'S FURTHER PLANS
    XXXIV.  THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC RE-CROSSES
     XXXV.  OPERATIONS OF THE CAVALRY CORPS
    XXXVI.  HOOKER'S RESUME
   XXXVII.  SOME RESULTING CORRESPONDENCE
 APPENDIX.

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