Bloody spring : forty days that sealed the Confederacy's fate / Joseph Wheelan.

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For forty crucial days they fought a bloody struggle. When it was over, the Civil War's tide had turned. In the spring of 1864, Virginia remained unbroken, its armies having repelled Northern armies for more than two years. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia had defeated the campaigns of four...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wheelan, Joseph
Language:English
Published: Boston, MA : Da Capo Press, a member of the Perseus Books Group, 2014.
Subjects:
Overland Campaign, Va., 1864.
Physical Description:411 pages ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Spring 1864
  • Two bloody roads: the Wilderness
  • The red hour: Spotsylvania
  • The battle that never happened: the North Anna
  • "Not war but murder": Cold Harbor
  • Race to stalemate: the James River
  • Epilogue: the beginning of the end.