The Wilderness Campaign: The Meeting of Grant and Lee

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.

Product details

• Authors: Edward Steere
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2001
• EAN: 9780811731270
• ISBN: 978-0-8117-3127-0
• No. of pages: 542
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 210 mm x 35 mm
• Weight: 581 g
• Series: Stackpole Classics; Stackpole Classics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous