Marching On by Marline Manly
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ePublished by
August 2021
Originally published September 8, 1883
Dime novel, Civil War
Author: Marline Manly
ePublished by
August 2021
Originally published September 8, 1883
Dime novel, Civil War
Author: Marline Manly
Number 52 in “The War Library: Original Stories of Adventure in the War for the Union,” a series of dime novels that are set in the midst of actual Civil War battles.
Marching On; or, From the Rapidan to Cold Harbor: A Story of the Terrible Battles of the Wilderness tells the story of General Ulysses S. Grant’s brilliant march from the Rapidan River through the Wilderness to lay siege to Petersburg and Richmond, Virginia, effectively ending the American Civil War. Rather than the usual habit adopted by authors and historians of lauding Robert E. Lee’s military genius, the author instead lauds Grant’s military genius, explaining how the “Great Flanker” outmaneuvered and defeated Lee at every step of his long retreat toward Richmond.
The credited author, “Marline Manly,” is one of the pseudonyms of St George Henry Rathborne (1854–1938), who was born and raised in northern Kentucky.
Marching On; or, From the Rapidan to Cold Harbor: A Story of the Terrible Battles of the Wilderness tells the story of General Ulysses S. Grant’s brilliant march from the Rapidan River through the Wilderness to lay siege to Petersburg and Richmond, Virginia, effectively ending the American Civil War. Rather than the usual habit adopted by authors and historians of lauding Robert E. Lee’s military genius, the author instead lauds Grant’s military genius, explaining how the “Great Flanker” outmaneuvered and defeated Lee at every step of his long retreat toward Richmond.
The credited author, “Marline Manly,” is one of the pseudonyms of St George Henry Rathborne (1854–1938), who was born and raised in northern Kentucky.