A Want of Vigilance: The Bristoe Station Campaign, October

A Want of Vigilance: The Bristoe Station Campaign, October 9–19, 1863 (Emerging Civil War Series)

"The months after Gettysburg had hardly been quietâ€•filled with skirmishes, cavalry clashes, and plenty of marching. Nonetheless, Union commander Maj. Gen. George Gordon Meade had yet to come to serious blows with his Confederate counterpart, Gen. Robert E. Lee.

â€œLee is undoubtedly bullying you,â€ one of Meadeâ€™s superiors goaded.

Leeâ€™s armyâ€•severely bloodied at Gettysburgâ€•did not have quite the offensive capability it once possessed, yet Leeâ€™s aggressive nature could not be quelled. He looked for the chance to strike out at Meade.

In mid-October, 1863, both men shifted their armies into motion. Each surprised the other. Quickly, Meade found himself racing northward for safety along the Orange & Alexandria Railroad, with Lee charging up the rail line behind him.

Last stop: Bristoe Station.

Authors Robert Orrison and Bill Backus have worked at the Bristoe Station battlefield, which is now surrounded by one of the fastest-growing parts of Virginia. In A Want of Vigilance, they trace the campaign from the armiesâ€™ camps around Orange and Culpeper northwest through the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains and along the vital railroadâ€•to Centreville and backâ€•in a back-and-forth game of cat and mouse: the â€œgoggle-eyed snapping turtleâ€ versus â€œthe old gray foxâ€ pitted against each other in one of the most overlooked periods of the war."
Country USA
Brand Savas Beatie
Manufacturer Savas Beatie
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 2015-10-19
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781611213003

Country	USA
Brand	Savas Beatie
Manufacturer	Savas Beatie
Binding	Paperback
ReleaseDate	2015-10-19
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781611213003

A Want of Vigilance: The Bristoe Station Campaign, October 9–19, 1863 (Emerging Civil War Series)

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