400 pages / 6.00 x 9.00 inches / 40 maps
History / United States - Civil War Period | History / United States - Southern History
The initial confrontation between Union general Ulysses S. Grant and Confederate general Robert E. Lee in Virginia during the Overland Campaign included the pivotal battles of Wilderness, Spotsylvania, and Cold Harbor. Yet this crucial engagement has only recently received the same degree of scrutiny as other Civil War battles. In Lee’s Army during the Overland Campaign, Alfred C. Young III makes a significant contribution to that study by providing for the first time accurate information regarding the Confederate side throughout the conflict.
Alfred C. Young III is an independent scholar living in Pennsylvania.
Gordon C. Rhea is the author of numerous books on the Civil War, including his award-winning Overland Campaign series.
“For scholars of the carnage between Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant in the spring of 1864, Lee’s Army During the Overland Campaign is comparable in significance to the Dead Sea Scrolls….Few books published during the sesquicentennial will prove as valuable to Civil War scholars as this one. Alfred Young deserves our thanks.”—America’s Civil War
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