After the ferocious fighting at Cold Harbor, Virginia, in June 1864, Union Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant ordered his cavalry, commanded by Maj. Gen. Philip H. Sheridan, to distract the Confederate forces opposing the Army of the Potomac. Glory Enough for All chronicles the battle that resulted when Confederate cavalry pursued and caught their Federal foes at Trevilian Station, Virginia, perhaps the only truly decisive cavalry battle of the American Civil War. Eric J. Wittenberg tells the stories of the men who fought there, including eight Medal of Honor winners and one Confederate whose death at Trevilian Station made him the third of three brothers to die in the service of Company A of the Fourth Virginia Cavalry. He also addresses the little-known but critical cavalry battle at Samaria (Saint Mary's) Church on June 24, 1864, where Union Brig. Gen. David N. Gregg's division was nearly destroyed. The only modern strategic analysis of the battle, Glory Enough for All challenges prevailing interpretations of General Sheridan and of the Union cavalry. Wittenberg shows that the outcome of Trevilian Station ultimately prolonged Grant's efforts to end the Civil War.
Table of Contents:
List of Maps
Foreword
Preface
1 The Union and Confederate Cavalry Forces and the Strategy Underlying the June 1864 Trevilian Raid
2 The Road to Trevilian Station
3 First Shots: Torbert and Butler Open the Action
4 Custer's First Last Stand: The Fight for Hampton's Wagons
5 Union Breakthrough along the Railroad
6 A Long Night on the Battlefield and a Morning of Destruction along the Virginia Central Railroad
7 Sheridan is Repulsed at the Bloody Angle: The Second Day of the Battle of Trevilian Station
8 Sheridan's Retreat to White House Landing from Trevilian Station
9 The March from White House Landing to the James River
10 The Battle of Samaria Church and the End of the Trevilian Raid
11 An Assessment of the Trevilian Raid and the Battle of Trevilian Station
Epilogue
Appendix A: Order of the Battle
Appendix B: Union Strengths and Losses at the Battle of Trevilian Station, June 11, 1864
Appendix C: Union Strengths and Losses at the Battle of Trevilian Station, June 12, 1864
Appendix D: Confederate Strengths and Losses at the Battle of Trevilian Station
Bibliography
Index
