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 The Last Gasp of Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia: The Siege of Petersburg and the Appomattox Campaign by Charles River Editors English | April 29, 2015 | ISBN: 1511945192 | 108 pages | EPUB | 2.73 Mb *Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the fighting written by generals and soldiers on both sides *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents "I have seen your despatch expressing your unwillingness to break your hold where you are. Neither am I willing. Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible." - President Abraham Lincoln to Ulysses S. Grant, August 1864 After the last major pitched battle of the Overland Campaign was fought at Cold Harbor in early June, Ulysses S. Grant's Army of the Potomac had suffered more casualties during the campaign than Robert E. Lee had in his entire Army of Northern Virginia at the start of May. Understandably, the American public was shocked by the carnage, and to this day Grant has been accused of being a butcher, but attrition had become a vital war aim for the North, and Grant remained undeterred. Refusing to attack Lee in frontal assaults, and aware that Lee dared not venture out to counterattack, Grant nearly captured Richmond in mid-June by stealing a march on Lee's army and crossing the James River. The fog of war, poor luck, and a skillful impromptu defense by P.G.T. Beauregard stopped Grant from taking Petersburg, which was a critical railroad hub and supply line for Richmond, before Lee's army could confront, thereby saving the Confederacy for the time being. The two armies began to dig in around Petersburg, and unbeknownst to them they would be there for the next 9 months, constructing elaborate trenches and engaging in the kind of warfare that would be the forerunner of World War I. Both sides engaged in innovative and unique attempts at mining underneath the enemy's siege lines, as well as countermining, which led to the famous Battle of the Crater that turned an ingenious engineering feat into a Union debacle. Lee's attempts to break the siege by threatening Washington and trying to fight Grant's army proved just as futile. On April 2, the long siege of Petersburg by Ulysses S. Grant ended with Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia finally having its line broken, forcing Lee to retreat and give up Richmond in the process. Lee's battered army began stumbling toward a rail depot in the hopes of avoiding being surrounded by Union forces and picking up much needed food rations. While Grant's army continued to chase Lee's retreating army westward, the Confederate government sought to escape across the Deep South. On April 4, President Lincoln entered Richmond and toured the home of Confederate President Jefferson Davis. Fittingly, the food rations Lee moved toward did not arrive as anticipated, and on April 7, 1865, Grant sent Lee the first official letter demanding Lee's surrender. In it Grant wrote, "The results of the last week must convince you of the hopelessness of further resistance on the part of the Army of Northern Virginia in this struggle. I feel it is so, and regret it as my duty to shift myself from the responsibility of any further effusion of blood by asking of you the surrender of that portion of the Confederate States army known as the Army of Northern Virginia." Passing the note to General Longstreet, now his only advisor, Longstreet said, "Not yet." But by the following evening during what would be the final Confederate Council of War (and after one final attempt had been made to break through Union lines), Lee finally succumbed, stating regretfully, "There is nothing left me but to go and see General Grant, and I had rather die a thousand deaths." Communications continued until April 9, at which point Lee and Grant two met at Appomattox Court House. When Lee and Grant met, the styles in dress captured the personality differences perfectly. Lee was in full military attire, while Grant showed up casually in a muddy uniform. The Civil War's two most celebrated generals were meeting for the first time since the Mexican-American War.  The Lascaux Notebooks by Jean-Luc Champerret, translated by Philip Terry English | June 30, 2022 | ISBN: 1800171722 | True EPUB | 408 pages | 3.8 MB This newest Carcanet Classic collects the oldest poetry yet discovered, as written down or runed in the Ice Age in Lascaux and other caves in the Dordogne, and now translated-tentatively-into English for the first time. The translation is at two removes, from French versions by the mysterious linguistic genius Jean-Luc Champerret, and then from the striking originals that retain such a sense of early human presence. Philip Terry mediates between the French and those hitherto inscrutable originals.  Gaylord Gawrys, "The Ladder Logic: How To Write And Troubleshoot Ladder Logic" English | 2022 | ASIN: B09ZL51YP3 | EPUB | pages: 123 | 0.3 mb One of the most mind-blowing visual programming dialects is a PLC programming language called stepping stool rationale or stepping stool graph (LD). The extraordinary thing about stepping stool rationale is that it's significantly more visual than most programming dialects, so individuals frequently find it much simpler to learn.  Mallanaga Vatsyayana, Jim Roberts, "The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana" English | 2002 | ISBN: 1342188691 | ASIN: B003E783B4 | EPUB | pages: 212 | 0.5 mb The Kama Sutra is an ancient Indian text widely considered to be the standard work on human sexual behavior in Sanskrit literature. It is over 1,700 years old, yet it remains a best seller to this day. Part of the reason, of course, is its incredible advice and creativity in the art of loving. But it is much more than that.  The Japanese Myths: A Guide to Gods, Heroes and Spirits by Joshua Frydman English | July 5th, 2022 | ISBN: 0500252319 | 224 pages | True EPUB | 62.70 MB An illustrated guide to the fantastic world of Japanese myths: retelling the stories and exploring how Japanese mythology has changed over time, as new gods, heroes, and spirits have entered the canon.  The Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility: Corporate Activities, the Environment and Society English | 2023 | ISBN: 1032021888 | 223 Pages | PDF (True) | 9 MB The Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility: Corporate Activities, the Environment and Society adds to the current debate on the societal-level impacts of corporate social responsibility (CSR).  The Imaginary Girlfriend: A Memoir by John Irving English | December 3, 2002 | ISBN: 0345458265 | True EPUB | 180 pages | 0.8 MB "The nearest thing to an autobiography Irving has written . . . worth saving and savoring."-Seattle Times  H. Christian Breede, "The Idea of Failed States: Community, Society, Nation, and Patterns of Cohesion" English | ISBN: 1138716391 | 2017 | 200 pages | EPUB | 2 MB Why are some states able to deliver public services to their citizens while others cannot? Why are some states beset by internal conflict that leaves many impoverished? Much of what has become known as the failed states literature attempts to engage with these questions, but does so in way that betrays a particular bias, engaging in advocacy for intervention rather than analysis. The Idea of Failed States directly challenges existing thinking about conventional state strength as it finds that institutional approaches to state strength obscure as much as they reveal.  Nancy Barone, "The Husband Diet" English | 2022 | ISBN: 1803287659 | ASIN: B09TCQ5B3G | EPUB | pages: 320 | 0.4 mb Erica Cantelli feels weighed down and it has nothing to do with the extra pounds she's trying to lose.  The History of Women's Football by Jean Williams English | February 3, 2022 | ISBN: 1526785315 | True EPUB | 240 pages | 67.4 MB A complete history of women's football, from its Victorian games beginning in 1881, to the plans for England to host the Euro Finals in England 2022, this book demonstrates how women's football began as a professional sport, and has only recently returned to these professional roots in the UK. This is because there was a fifty-year Football Association 'ban' on women playing on pitches affiliated to the governing body in England. The other British associations followed suit. |
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