On May 5 and 6, 1864, in a rugged area of tangled woods and brush on the south side of the Rapidan River in Virginia, Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee met for the first time on a Civil War battlefield. The vicious, confused fighting lasted for two days. Though no clear victor emerged, neither conceded defeat, and the death-grapple thus commenced continued for nearly a year. Now available in paperback, Edward Steere's thorough, accurate history, originally published in 1960, was the first full-scale study of the Battle of the Wilderness and remains a principal source on the conflict. The contemporary edition also features a new foreword by respected author and historian Robert K. Krick.
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"A painstaking, thorough, and revealing study of one of the Civil War's most important campaigns. It throws much new and valuable light on the logistics and on the generalship of Grant and Lee." -Bell I. Wiley, author of The Life of Billy Yank, The Life of Johnny Reb, and Confederate Women
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This book on the Battle of the Wilderness, is one of the top two Civil War books I have ever read (Cozzen's Book on Chickamauga "This Terrible Sound" being the other). The maps are detailed but crystal clear, and allow you to totally follow the troop movements described in the book. Steere's writing similarly is detailed but exciting and clear. I've read this book over the years at least five times, and it's time to read it again! More detailed than Rhea's book on the same subject, by the way. Rhea's book is good too, but this one is much better for the hard-core Civil War reader.
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Long known as the Wilderness of Virginia, a dreary waste-land fringing the south bank of the Rapidan River lends its name to a famous battle of history. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
plank road, left echelon, assault column, entrenched line, combat trains, provisional corps, attack column, fresh brigades, reserve trenches, offensive program, wing headquarters, corps headquarters, army headquarters, heavy artillery regiments, holding attack, provisional brigade, forest fighting Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
North Carolina, Wilderness Tavern, Army of the Potomac, Todd's Tavern, New York, Mine Run, Germanna Ford, Shady Grove Church, Wilderness Run, Army of Northern Virginia, Ely's Ford, Brock Crossing, Flat Run, Spotsylvania Court House, New Jersey, Hamilton's Crossing, Culpeper Mine Road, Richards Shop, Locust Grove, Orange Turnpike, Fitzhugh Lee, Widow Tapp, General Getty, New Verdiersville, General Hancock New!
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Long known as the Wilderness of Virginia, a dreary waste-land fringing the south bank of the Rapidan River lends its name to a famous battle of history. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
plank road, left echelon, assault column, entrenched line, combat trains, provisional corps, attack column, fresh brigades, reserve trenches, offensive program, wing headquarters, corps headquarters, army headquarters, heavy artillery regiments, holding attack, provisional brigade, forest fighting Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
North Carolina, Wilderness Tavern, Army of the Potomac, Todd's Tavern, New York, Mine Run, Germanna Ford, Shady Grove Church, Wilderness Run, Army of Northern Virginia, Ely's Ford, Brock Crossing, Flat Run, Spotsylvania Court House, New Jersey, Hamilton's Crossing, Culpeper Mine Road, Richards Shop, Locust Grove, Orange Turnpike, Fitzhugh Lee, Widow Tapp, General Getty, New Verdiersville, General Hancock New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- A Rising Star Of Promise: The Wartime Diary And Letter Of David Jackson Logan, 17th South Carolina Volunteers 1861-1864 (Battles & Campaigns of the Carolinas) by Samuel N. Thomas Jr. in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Bloody Promenade: Reflections on a Civil War Battle (The American South Series) by Stephen Cushman on page 191
- Somebody's Darling: Essays on the Civil War by Kent Gramm on page 179
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