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Meade and Lee at Rappahannock Station

The Army of the Potomacs First Post-Gettysburg Offensive from Kellys Ford to the Rapidan, October 21 to November 20, 1863

Jeffrey Wm Hunt

2021 Jeffrey Wm Hunt

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Names: Hunt, Jeffrey Wm. (Jeffrey William), 1962 author.

Title: Meade and Lee at Rappahannock Station: The Army of the Potomacs First post-Gettysburg Offensive, from Kellys Ford to the Rapidan, October 21 to November 20, 1863 / Jeffrey Wm Hunt.

Description: El Dorado Hills, CA : Savas Beatie LLC, [2021] | Includes bibliographical references and index. |

Summary: Hunts third installment in his award-winning Meade and Lee series is grounded upon official reports, regimental histories, letters, newspapers, and other archival sources. It examines the intricate command relationships, Lees questionable decision-making, and the courageous spirit of the fighting men - Provided by publisher.

Identifiers: LCCN 2020057822 | ISBN: 9781611215397 (hardcover) | ISBN: 9781611215403 (ebook) | ISBN: 9781611215403 (Mobi)

Subjects: LCSH: Rappahannock Station, 2nd Battle of, Va., 1863 | VirginiaHistoryCivil War, 1861-1865Campaigns. | United States. Army of the Potomac. | Confederate States of America. Army of Northern Virginia. | United StatesHistoryCivil War, 1861-1865Campaigns. | Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870. | Meade, George Gordon, 1815-1872.

Classification: LCC E475.7 .H86 2021 | DDC 973.7/35dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020057822

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For Gill

My Best Friend and Comrade on Many a Field

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1: I Am So Anxious and Worried

Chapter 2: The Enemy Will Make One More Effort

Chapter 3: My Plan Is Disapproved

Chapter 4: Through Fire and Smoke, Mid the Shrieks of Wounded Men

Chapter 5: A Glorious Pageant of Real War

Chapter 6: A Terrible and Indescribable Struggle

Chapter 7: Time Is Of the Utmost Importance

Chapter 8: That Which Will Preserve Lives

Chapter 9: A Show of Fight

Chapter 10: Our Chance Is Gone

Chapter 11: Miserable, Miserable Management

Chapter 12: The Appearance of an Advance

Chapter 13: Too Great a Reliance

Appendix 1: Deciphering the Rappahannock Station Battlefield

Appendix 2: Ordering the Rappahannock Station Attack

Appendix 3: Emory Upton and Rappahannock Stations Legacy

Appendix 4: Confederate Uniforms at Rappahannock Station and Kellys Ford

Appendix 5: Troops Engaged at Rappahannock Station

Appendix 6: Troops Engaged at Kellys Ford

Bibliography

Illustrations

Maj. Gen. George Meade

Gen. Robert E. Lee

Lt. Gen. A. P. Hill

Lt. Gen. Richard Ewell

Maj. Gen. Jubal Early

O&A Railroad Bridge

Kellysville

Maj. Gen. William French

Capt. Henry Sleeper and Alfred Waud

Union Artillery Firing on Kellys Ford

Maj. Gen. David Birney

Assault on Kellys Ford

Maj. Gen. John Sedgwick

Bartletts Column of Divisions

Rappahannock Station, August 1862

O&A Bridge, South View

Brig. Gen. Harry Hays

Col. Davidson Penn

Rappahannock Station Bridges

Maj. Gen. George Sykes

Brig. Gen. Joseph Bartlett

Capt. Dendy Sharwood

Stepped Trench

Brig. Gen. Albion Howe

Brig. Gen. David Russell

Brig. Gen. Horatio Wright

Rappahannock Topography

Lt. Col. Benjamin Harris

Col. Thomas Allen

Maj. William Morrill

Eastern Assault

Capt. Reuel Furlong

Assaulting the Large Redoubt

Col. Emory Upton

Col. Clark Edwards

Uptons Attack

Col. Archibald Godwin

1st Lieutenant Samuel Buck

Maj. Gen. James E. B. Stuart

Maj. Gen. Gouverneur K. Warren

Col. Joseph Warren Keifer

Brig. Gen. Henry Lane

Col. George Chapman

Captured Confederate Flags

Maj. Gen. Wade Hampton

Col. Martin McMahon

Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant

Col. Upton at Spotsylvania

Maps

O&A Area

Positions Oct. 31

Culpeper County

Lees Options

Meades options

Meades Advance

Battle of Kellys Ford

Rappahannock Station Area

Initial Deployments

Union Advance

The Bridgehead

Bridgehead Stalemate

Russells Plan

Assault on the Bridgehead

Battle for the Earthworks

Uptons Assault

Uptons Second Attack

Confederate Positions, Morning Nov. 8

Union Movements, Nov. 8

Action on the Rixeyville Road

Positions at Nightfall Nov. 8

Retreat to the Rapidan

Positions Nov. 13

Hamptons Raid

Lees Rappahannock Station Map

New York Public Library Rappahannock Station Map

Adam Clark Baum Rappahannock Station Map

P REFACE

This book is the third in a series of four volumes examining the military actions in Central Virginia during the late summer and fall of 1863. My first work, Meade and Lee after Gettysburg , traced the final fortnight of the Gettysburg Campaign; following the armies of Robert E. Lee and George G. Meade over the Potomac and through a two-week duel along the Blue Ridge Mountains. That usually forgotten contest culminated with the Rebels foiling Federal efforts to trap them inside the Shenandoah Valley while simultaneously slipping through the mountains to reoccupy Culpeper Countythe very position they had held at the start of their Pennsylvania campaign.

The second volume, Meade and Lee at Bristoe Station , explored the months of August, September and October 1863. Despite seeing their armies rebound to pre-Gettysburg strength by the end of August, the two generals spent the last weeks of summer and all of September hobbled by problems ranging from supply shortages to draft riots and intense debate within their respective governments over future strategy. Before either leader could disentangle from these dilemmas, the Federal capture of Chattanooga and Knoxville and subsequent Confederate victory at Chickamauga forced both men to detach significant portions of their armies for western service.

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