During the summer of 1862, a Confederate resurgence threatened to turn the tide of the Civil War.
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Benjamin Franklin Cooling tells this story in Counter-Thrust , recounting in riveting detail Robert E.
When the Union\'s earlier multitheater thrust into the South proved to be a strategic overreach, the Confederacy saw its chance to reverse the loss of the Upper South through counteroffensives From the Chesapeake to the Mississippi.
During the summer of 1862, a Confederate resurgence threatened to turn the tide of the Civil War