The Wilderness Campaign: May 1864

Great Campaigns

by John Cannan

In May 1864, the Wilderness, a forbidding woodland south of the Rapidan River in Virginia, became the site of one of the concluding struggles of the Civil War, a contest of strategy, tactics and will between the finest generals of either side: Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee.

Genres: History, Civil War, Civil War Eastern Theater, American Civil War

238 pages, Hardcover

First published March 21, 1993

Reviews

[Jimmy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Rather brief book, not as detailed as Gordon C. Rhea's book. Still not a bad overview of the battle, with some good sidebars on the generals.