Wilderness and Spotsylvania 1864: Grant versus Lee in the East: 267 (Campaign) Paperback – Illustrated, 20 May 2014

Excellent and informative book.

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very enjoyable read and would recommend to your civil war bookshelves.

Good read. Does an excellent job of tying the two battles together. The price paid in human suffering during the American Civil War was horrendous.

The battles at the Wilderness and Spotsylvania were bloody affairs. The Army of the Potomac took more casualties--but also had more men to spare. Both U. S. Grant and Robert E. Lee were willing to slug it out in these two conflicts.This book does a nice job--with little space to describe matters in detail. The volume contains 93 pages of text, and whole books have been written in great detail about these battles separately.As with other works in the Osprey "Campaign" series, we have a standard template: brief introduction, a chronology, oppsoing commanders, the armies (with a detailed--and very helpful--order of battle for the Armies of the Potomac and of Northern Virginia), the opposing planes, the description of battle, the aftermath, and the state of the battlefield today. There are also maps, some of which are not ass illuminating as others.These battles represent U. S. Grant's first efforts against Lee. Grant showed a gumption and determination that other Union generals had not. Key leaders for the northern forces: U. S. Grant, George Meade, Winfield Scott Hancock, Ambrose Burnside, John Sedgwick,Gouverneur Warren, and Philip Sheridan. Each of these people would have major roles to play. Conferdderate leaders? Lee, of course. James Longstreet, who had one of his best days of the war at The Wilderness, Richard Ewell, A. P. Hill, Jeb Stuart, and John Gordon. The structure of the two armies is laid out on pages 13-18 (the Union forces) and the Army of Northern Virginia (pages 20-23.The next 60 pages outline the sanguinary struggles engaged in by both armies--and the highlights and lowlights of each. The aftermath of the battle is discussed, as is a brief depiction of the battlefields today (not in as bad a shape as some other major battlefields).All in all, a fine book for one so brief.

Very good short book on a topic not covered extensively, with good illustrations.

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