Counter-ThrustDuring 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