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Date:	2021	Format:	rar	Language:	English	ISBN/ASIN:	1636240119
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A new perspective on Jubal Early's raid on Washington, D.C. in 1864.

In an era of battlefield one-upmanship, the raid on the Nations Capital in July 1864 was prompted by an earlier failed Union attempt to destroy Richmond and free the Union prisoners held there. Jubal Earlys mission was in part to let the North have a taste of its own medicine by attacking Washington and freeing the Confederate prisoners at Point Lookout in southern Maryland. He was also to fill the Souths larder from unmolested Union fields, mills and barns. By 1864 such southern food raids had become annual wartime events. And he was to threaten and, if possible, capture Washington. This latter task was unrealistic in an age when the success of rifle fire was judged to be successful not by accuracy, but by the amount of lead that was shot into the air. Initially, the Union defenders of the city were larger former slaves, freemen, mechanic, shopkeepers and government clerks, as well as invalids. They might not have known much about riflery and accuracy, but they were capable of putting ample lead on the long until Regular Union regiments arrived. Jubal Early hesitated in attacking Washington, but he held the City at bay while his troops pillaged the countryside for the food Lees Army needed to survive.

This new account focuses on the reasons, reactions and results of Jubal Earlys raid of 1864. History has judged it to have been a serious threat to the capital, but James H. Bruns examines how the nature of the Confederate raid on Washington in 1864 has been greatly misinterpretedJubal Earlys maneuvers were in fact only the latest in a series of annual southern food raids. It also corrects some of the thinking about Earlys raid, including the reason behind his orders from General Lee to cross the Potomac and the thoughts behind the proposed raid on Point Lookout and the role of the Confederate Navy in that failed effort. It presents a new prospective in explaining Jubal Earlys raid on Washington by focusing on why things happened as they did in 1864. It identifies the cause-and-effect connections that are truly the stuff of history, forging some of the critical background links that oftentimes are ignored or overlooked in books dominated by battles and leaders.

Preface
Introduction

Chapter 1  The Confederates Turn the Tables
Chapter 2  Into the Valley
Chapter 3  The Rebels are Coming
Chapter 4  Defending Washington
Chapter 5  Across the Potomac
Chapter 6  9 July  Monocacy Junction
Chapter 7  9 and 10 July  Taking Shelter
Chapter 8  The Way to Washington
Chapter 9  The Rebels Take Their Toll
Chapter 10  Outside Baltimore
Chapter 11  11 July
Chapter 12  12 and 13 July
Chapter 13  14 July
Chapter 14  Back Again
Chapter 15  Point Lookout
Chapter 16  Fort Stevens
Chapter 17  Earlys Exit

Conclusions
Notes
Index
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