Counter-Thrust - From the Peninsula to the Antietam. Great Campaigns of the Civil War. (Electronic book text)

During the summer of 1862, a Confederate resurgence threatened to turn the tide of the Civil War. When the Unions earlier multitheater thrust into the South proved to be a strategic overreach, the Confederacy saw its chance to reverse the loss of the Upper South through counteroffensives from the Chesapeake to the Mississippi. Benjamin Franklin Cooling tells this story in Counter-Thrust, recounting in harrowing detail Robert E. Lees flouting of his antagonist George B. McClellans drive to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond and describing the Confederate heros long-dreamt-of offensive to reclaim central and northern Virginia before crossing the Potomac.