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

by Stephen W. Sears, Stephen W. Sears (Editor)

Theodore Ayrault Dodge (1842-1909) was one of the 19th-century's great military historians and author. 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 maneouvre - found itself at the centre of the battle and subsequent controversy. He provides the best and most complete eyewitness account of the events. He lost a leg at Gettysburg and was temporarily taken prisoner. He provides a bright, articulate and observant record of his service from June 1862 to July 1863 - a harrowing and vivid account of life and death in the Army of the Potomac.

Genres: Civil War, History, American Civil War

368 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2001

About the author

Stephen Ward Sears is an American historian specializing in the American Civil War.

A graduate of Lakewood High School and Oberlin College, Sears attended a journalism seminar at Radcliffe-Harvard. As an author he has concentrated on the military history of the American Civil War, primarily the battles and leaders of the Army of the Potomac. He was employed as editor of the Educational Department at the American Heritage Publishing Company.

Sears resides in Norwalk, Connecticut.

Reviews

[Don Ekback]

A fascinating read. I've read much about these fights and the times surrounding them, but to see through the eyes of one was there, and written at the time gives a whole different aspect to it all.