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Ringgold is evacuated by the Yankees...
Ringgold is evacuated by the Yankees...
Item # 707928
December 02, 1863
NEW YORK TIMES Dec. 2, 1863
* Mine Run Campaign
* Virginia wilderness
* Gouverneur K. Warren
Among the front page column heads on the Civil War: "THE ARMIES IN VIRGINIA" "The Hostile Forces Confronting Each Other at mine Run Valley" "Lee Strongly Intrenched and Presenting a Defiant Attitude" "GEN. GRANT'S ARMY" "Ringgold Evacuated by Our Forces" "The Enemy at Strength at Tunnel Hill". More war heads on inside pages as well.
Eight pages, never bound nor trimmed, two folds, nice condition.
background: The Mine Run Campaign was a high-stakes chess match of maneuver and fortification that ultimately stalled in the freezing mud of the Virginia Wilderness. Launched in late November 1863, Union Major General George Meade sought to exploit a gap in Robert E. Lee’s overextended lines by swinging his army across the Rapidan River to strike the Confederate right flank. However, the operation was plagued by logistical bottlenecks and sluggish movement—most notably by General William French’s III Corps—which gifted Lee enough time to consolidate his forces behind the steep, marshy banks of Mine Run Creek. As the Union Army prepared for a final, desperate assault on November 30, General Gouverneur K. Warren observed that the Confederate works had become virtually impregnable overnight; realizing that a charge would result in a senseless slaughter reminiscent of Fredericksburg, Warren took the immense personal risk of calling off the attack. Meade eventually concurred, and the Union army withdrew under the cover of darkness, ending the last major offensive of 1863 and leaving both armies to settle into winter quarters while Washington politicians grumbled over the lack of a decisive victory.
* Mine Run Campaign
* Virginia wilderness
* Gouverneur K. Warren
Among the front page column heads on the Civil War: "THE ARMIES IN VIRGINIA" "The Hostile Forces Confronting Each Other at mine Run Valley" "Lee Strongly Intrenched and Presenting a Defiant Attitude" "GEN. GRANT'S ARMY" "Ringgold Evacuated by Our Forces" "The Enemy at Strength at Tunnel Hill". More war heads on inside pages as well.
Eight pages, never bound nor trimmed, two folds, nice condition.
background: The Mine Run Campaign was a high-stakes chess match of maneuver and fortification that ultimately stalled in the freezing mud of the Virginia Wilderness. Launched in late November 1863, Union Major General George Meade sought to exploit a gap in Robert E. Lee’s overextended lines by swinging his army across the Rapidan River to strike the Confederate right flank. However, the operation was plagued by logistical bottlenecks and sluggish movement—most notably by General William French’s III Corps—which gifted Lee enough time to consolidate his forces behind the steep, marshy banks of Mine Run Creek. As the Union Army prepared for a final, desperate assault on November 30, General Gouverneur K. Warren observed that the Confederate works had become virtually impregnable overnight; realizing that a charge would result in a senseless slaughter reminiscent of Fredericksburg, Warren took the immense personal risk of calling off the attack. Meade eventually concurred, and the Union army withdrew under the cover of darkness, ending the last major offensive of 1863 and leaving both armies to settle into winter quarters while Washington politicians grumbled over the lack of a decisive victory.
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