Bermuda Hundred from Surveys under the direction of Bevt. Brig. Gen. N. Michie, Maj. of Engineers by command of Maj. Gen. A.A. Humphreys, Brig. Gen. & Chief of Engineers
by Julius Bien, Sup
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New York: NY Lithograph, Printing & Engraving, 1867. Very good +/none as issued. Julius Bien, Sup.. Hand colored lithographic map of the Bermuda Hundred American Civil War battlefield. Original from 1867. One crease in center of map. 36 x 24 1/2 inches tall. In March 1864, Ulysses S. Grant was summoned from the Western Theater, promoted to lieutenant general, and given command of all Union armies. Grant devised a coordinated strategy that would strike at the heart of Confederacy from multiple directions: Grant, George G. Meade, and Butler against Robert E. Lee near Richmond; Franz Sigel in the Shenandoah Valley; William Tecumseh Sherman to invade Georgia, defeat Joseph E. Johnston, and capture Atlanta; George Crook and William W. Averell to operate against railroad supply lines in West Virginia; Nathaniel Banks to capture Mobile, Alabama. This was the first time the Union armies would have a coordinated offensive strategy across multiple theaters.Grant and Meade attacked Lees Army of Northern Virginia directly in the Overland Campaign. Butlers mission was to deploy his 33,000-man army via the James River to the Virginia Peninsula and strike northwest to Richmond. The objective was not to capture the Confederate capital directly, but to cut the Richmond and Petersburg Railroada critical Southern supply lineand force Lee to send reinforcements to that front, weakening him against Grant and Meade.Butler was one of several political generals in the wara man selected more for his support of Abraham Lincolns upcoming re-election than his skill on the battlefield. His military career contained more controversies than victories. Grant hoped to compensate for Butlers weaknesses by assigning him two strong subordinate generals: Quincy A. Gillmore, commanding the X Corps, and William F. Baldy Smith, commanding the XVIII Corps. (Neither proved assertive enough to counteract Butlers inexperience.)The campaign took its name from the fishing village of Bermuda Hundred on the peninsula at the confluence of the Appomattox and James rivers. The village is southeast of Richmond and northeast of Petersburg. It was downriver on the James from the practical limit of advance for Union warships, the fortifications at Drewrys Bluff.Butlers Army of the James disembarked from navy transports at Bermuda Hundred on May 5, the same day Grant and Lee began fighting in the Battle of the Wilderness. He also dropped units at City Point, which could be used to threaten Petersburg. For a brief time, Butler attempted to move out smartly. Opposing him was a Confederate army (the Department of North Carolina and Southern Virginia) of 18,000 under Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard; some of these soldiers were pieced together from the ranks of teenagers and elderly men in the Richmond-Petersburg area, theoretically no match for Butlers soldiers. Beauregards subordinate commanding troops around Petersburg was George Pickett of Picketts Charge fame.wikipedia
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- Title
- Bermuda Hundred from Surveys under the direction of Bevt. Brig. Gen. N. Michie, Maj. of Engineers by command of Maj. Gen. A.A. Humphreys, Brig. Gen. & Chief of Engineers
- Author
- Julius Bien, Sup
- Illustrator
- Julius Bien, Sup.
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good +
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- none as issued
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- NY Lithograph, Printing & Engraving
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1867
- Keywords
- Civill war, map, lithograph
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- Military History;
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