The Wilderness Campaign: The Meeting of Grant and Lee :: Edward Steere soon to be presented for sale on the first-class BookLovers of Bath web site!
Mechanicsburg: Stackpole Books, 1994, Hardback in dust wrapper.
Includes: Plans of battle; Maps; Maps to the lining papers; Appendices (2);
From the cover: All of America, North and South, watched with anticipation for the first meeting of Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant on the battlefield. The two titans of the Union and Confederacy must inevitably come to blows, and finally it happened in a rugged area of tangled woods and brush in northern Virginia called the Wilderness. There in the early days of May 1864 they revealed what the war in the East was going to be like for the balance of the spring and summer. There, too, they revealed what they were themselves made of.
When Edward Steeres The Wilderness Campaign originally appeared in 1960, it was the first full study of that epic conflict ever to appear, and since then it has remained the principal source on the conflict. Well-researched and well-reasoned, it illustrates al…
Introduction by: Robert Krick
Very Good in Very Good Dust Wrapper.
Blue boards with Silver titling to the Spine. 522 pages. Index. 8½” x 5¾”.
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