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The Civil War in the Eastern Theater during the late summer and fall of 1863 was anything but inconsequential. Generals Meade and Lee continued where they had left off, executing daring marches while boldly maneuvering the chess pieces of war in an effort to gain decisive strategic and tactical advantage. Cavalry actions crisscrossed the rolling landscape; bloody battle revealed to both sides the command deficiencies left in the wake of Gettysburg. It was the first and only time in the war Meade exercised control of the Army of the Potomac on his own terms. Jeffrey Wm Hunt brilliant dissects these and others issues in Meade and Lee at Bristoe Station: The Problems of Command and Strategy After Gettysburg, from Brandy Station to the Buckland Races, August 1 to October 31, 1863.
The carnage of Gettysburg left both armies in varying states of command chaos as the focus of the war shifted west. Lee further depleted his ranks by dispatching James Longstreet (his best corps commander) and most of his First Corps via rail to reinforce Braggs Army of Tennessee. The Union defeat that followed at Chickamauga, in turn, forced Meade to follow suit with the XI and XII Corps. Despite these reductions, the aggressive Lee assumed the strategic offensive against his more careful Northern opponent, who was also busy waging a rearguard action against the politicians in Washington.
Meade and Lee at Bristoe Station is a fast-paced, dynamic account of how the Army of Northern Virginia carried the war above the Rappahannock once more in an effort to retrieve the laurels lost in Pennsylvania. When the opportunity beckoned Lee took it, knocking Meade back on his heels with a threat to his army as serious as the one Pope had endured a year earlier. As Lee quickly learned again, A. P. Hill was no Stonewall Jackson, and with Longstreet away Lees cudgel was no longer as mighty as he wished. The high tide of the campaign ebbed at Bristoe Station with a signal Confederate defeat. The next move was now up to Meade.
Hunts follow-up volume to his well-received Meade and Lee After Gettysburg is grounded upon official reports, regimental histories, letters, newspapers, and other archival sources. Together, they provide a day-by-day account of the fascinating high-stakes affair during this three-month period. Coupled with original maps and outstanding photographs, this new study offers a significant contribution to Civil War literature.

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Meade and Lee at Bristoe Station
The Problems of Command and Strategy from Brandy Station to the Buckland Races
August 1 to October 31, 1863
Jeffrey Wm Hunt
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2019 Jeffrey Wm Hunt
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Hunt, Jeffrey Wm. (Jeffrey William), 1962-author.
Title: Meade and Lee at Bristoe Station: The problems of Command and
Strategy After Gettysburg, from Brandy Station to the Buckland Races, August 1 to October 31, 1863 / by JeffreyWm Hunt.
Description: El Dorado Hills California: Savas Beatie, [2018] | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018030113| ISBN 9781611213966 (hardcover : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781611213973 (ebk)
Subjects: LCSH: VirginiaHistoryCivil War, 1861-1865Campaigns. | Bristoe Station, Battle of, Va., 1863. | Brandy Station, Battle of, Brandy Station, Va., 1863. | United States. Army of the Potomac. | Confederate States of America. Army of Northern Virginia. | United StatesHistory Civil War, 1861-1865Campaigns. | United StatesHistory Civil War, 1861-1865Campaigns.
Classification: LCC E470.2 .H926 2018 | DDC 975.5/03dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018030113
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Maps, photos, and illustrations have been distributed throughout the book for the benefit of the reader.
Preface
T HIS book is the second volume in a three part series that examines the Virginia Theater of the Civil War between the conclusion of the Gettysburg Campaign and the end of the active operations in December 1863. It is the result of 25 years of research. The first volume, Meade and Lee After Gettysburg: The Forgotten Final Stage of the Gettysburg Campaign, covered the 14 days between the Army of Northern Virginias retreat across the Potomac River and its arrival behind the upper Rappahannock River on July 28, 1863. This volume picks up the story at that point and examines the operations conducted by Lee and Meade between August and October of 1863, the culmination of which is the Bristoe Station Campaign.
Most histories of the War Between the States pass lightly over this period because it did not produce a major battle and its attendant blood bath. That is in stark contrast to the time lavished on these operations in regimental histories, personal memoirs, period documents and the Official Records of the Union and Confederate armies. They reveal months of dramatic combat and maneuvering as fascinating as any of the wars other campaigns. Decisions made by rival leaders during this period had an enormous impact on the war in Virginia and on the course of the conflict in general. The consequences of many of those choices proved monumental in 1864.
The campaigns after Gettysburg and before the arrival of Ulysses S. Grant at the helm of the Union war effort speak to the effect of Gettysburg on the course of the war. They provide the bridge between July 1863 when the North seemingly sewed up victory and the 1864 campaigns that almost led to the Unions defeat. They tell a great deal about Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln as commanders-in-chief. Furthermore, they reveal that Robert E. Lee was unbowed by Gettysburg and determined to continue his aggressive tactical and strategic paradigm. These campaigns show us even more about George Meade. The six months between Gettysburg and the end of 1863 represent the only period in which he had sole responsibility for the war in Virginia. Because Meade would live in Grant's shadow from March 1864 until the end of the war, an examination of his operations in the fall of 1863 represent history's only chance to study Meade on his own terms.
Space prevents me from including all of the dramatic tactical detail that I uncovered in preparing this manuscript. I hope to publish that story at a later date. At the suggestion of my editor, I have kept the story of the cavalry battles in August and September to a minimum. Likewise, this volume's bibliography is restricted to material cited in the footnotes.
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It is my great privilege to thank the following wonderful people for their contributions to this work. Among these are Dr. George Forgie of the University of Texas at Austin, who posed the initial question that put me on a quest to understand what happened in the late summer and fall of 1863. My fellow Civil War reenactors who over more than 30 years in the hobby have helped me understand the tactical minutiae of Civil War armies. Gill Eastdand, my best friend for over 30 years, who spent an entire week exploring Culpeper Country, Virginia with me. Rob Orrison, Bill Backus, Mike Block and Bryce Suderow for walking the fields with me, giving advice and encouragement, correcting errors, providing critical knowledge and insight. Dr. Gary Gallagher, Kent Masterson Brown and Fred Ray for the encouragement and assistance they have given me during this project. Mark Ragan and Jonathan Wiley, who mined the resources of the National Archives and Library of Congress as well as the North Carolina State Archives and University of North Carolina on my behalf. Sara Buehler, Amanda Shields and Chuck Ulmann deserve special thanks for helping me use the remarkable artwork of N. C. Wyeth that graces the cover of this book. And most importantly my publisher, Theodore P. Savas, managing director of Savas Beatie-an outstanding historian whose passion for bringing fresh perspectives to the reading public has placed Savas Beatie on the cutting edge of Civil War historiography.
In researching this volume I have been honored by the kind assistance of Ronald A. Lee (Tennessee State Library and Archives), Virginia Dunn (Library of Virginia), Ben Tayloe (Thomas Balch Library, Leesburg, Virginia), Corinne Nordin (Indiana Historical Society), Christine Beauregard, (New York State Library), Linda Thornton (Auburn University), Janet Bloom (William Clements Library - University of Michigan), Leah Weinryb Grohsgal, Teresa Burk and Kathleen Shoemaker (Robert Woodruff Library - Emory University), Joan Wood (Stewart Bell, Jr. Archives, Handley Regional Library, Winchester-Frederick County Historical Society), Blaine Knupp and Theresa McDevitt (Indiana University of Pennsylvania), Helen Conger (Case Western Reserve University Archives), Katherine Wilkins (Virginia Historical Society), Peiling Li and Alyson Barrett (Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History), Matthew Turi and Emma Parker (Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina), Vicki Catozza (Western Reserve Historical Society library and Archives), Jennifer Coleman (Navarro College), Shannon Schwaller (United States Military History Institute), Emilie Hardman (Houghton Library, Harvard University), the Research & Instructional Services Staff of the Wilson Library (University of North Carolina), and the staff of the Museum of the Civil War (formerly the Museum of the Confederacy). The unsung heroine of this book is my wife, Chris, one of the smartest and most talented people I know. The fantastic maps in this volume are her creations. Her patience and love throughout the researching and writing of this book is the bedrock upon which everything rests.
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