On Campaign with the Army of the Potomac: The Civil War Journal of Therodore Ayrault Dodge

Theodore Ayrault Dodge (1842-1909) was the nineteenth century's greatest military historian and author of biographies of Hannibal, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Gustavus Adolphus and Napoleon. "Theodore Ayrault Dodge (1842-1909) was one of the nineteenth century's great military historians and author of biographies of Hannibal, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Gustavus Adolphus, and Napoleon Bonaparte - classics that are still read and valued for their scholarship and style.". "But Dodge was anything but an "armchair" military historian. As a lieutenant colonel in the Army of the Potomac's 101st and later the 119th New York infantry regiments, he participated in the Civil War's fiercest and costliest fighting in the Seven Days' Battle and Second Bull Run, where he was wounded. At Chancellorsville, Dodge's regiment - surprised and routed by Stonewall Jackson's celebrated flanking manouver - found itself at the epicenter of the battle and subsequent controversy. Dodge's journal furnishes the best and most complete eyewitness account of the corps' ten-day experience marching and fighting. On the bloody field of Gettysburg, Dodge lost a leg and was temporarily taken prisoner.". "He kept an almost daily record of his service from June 1862 through July 1863, from the Peninsula Campaign to Gettysburg. Civil War historian Stephen W. Scars has edited Dodge's journal, offering a harrowing and vivid account of life - and death - in the Army of the Potomac during its most critical year."--BOOK JACKET. 1 Off To The Wars 1 -- 2 The Seven Days 25 -- 3 Waiting At Harrison's Landing 47 -- 4 To The Plains Of Manassas 73 -- 5 Marking Time In The Eleventh Corps 93 -- 6 A Winter Of Discontent 113 -- 7 Hooker Takes Command 157 -- 8 Waiting For Spring 195 -- 9 Defeated At Chancellorsville 229 -- 10 Respite Between Battles 259 -- 11 On The Road To Gettysburg 279 -- Appendix Left Wounded On The Field 309. Edited By Stephen W. Sears. Includes Index. The Civil War journal of one of the greatest military biographers of all time follows the young lieutenant on a series of campaigns throughout the south with the fabled Army of the Potomac.