Destined to Fail : The Johnson-Gilmor Cavalry Raid Around Baltimore, July 10-13, 1864 Hardback
by Eric Wittenberg
Hardback
Description
The Johnson-Gilmor Raid represents one of three attempts to free prisoners of war during the American Civil War.
Like the other two, it was destined to fail for a variety of reasons, mostly because the timetable for the operation was a schedule impossible to meet.
The mounted raid was a fascinating act of increasing desperation by the Confederate high command in the summer of 1864, and award-winning cavalry historian Eric J.
Wittenberg presents the gripping story in detail for the first time in Destined to Fail: The Johnson-Gilmor Cavalry Raid around Baltimore, July 10-13, 1864. The thundering high-stakes operation was intended to ease the suffering of 15,000 Confederate prisoners held at Point Lookout, Maryland, a peninsula at the confluence of the Potomac River and the Chesapeake Bay.
The story includes a motley cast of characters on both sides and fast-paced drama in a deeply researched study that draws upon published and unpublished primary sources, including contemporary newspapers. Part of Wittenberg's cogent analysis compares and contrasts this raid to a pair of other unsuccessful attempts to free Union prisoners of war - the Kilpatrick-Dahlgren Raid of February-March 1864, and the Stoneman Raid on Macon, Georgia of July 1864 - as well as Gen.
George S. Patton's attempt to free his son-in-law and other American prisoners in March of 1945.
This book will be welcomed by anyone with an interest in the Civil War, high-stakes cavalry operations, or the politics of Civil War high command.
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Pre-Order
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:168 pages, 30 images, 4 maps
- Publisher:Savas Beatie
- Publication Date:15/06/2024
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- ISBN:9781611216196
Information
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Pre-Order
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:168 pages, 30 images, 4 maps
- Publisher:Savas Beatie
- Publication Date:15/06/2024
- Category:
- ISBN:9781611216196
