In riveting detail Trudeau traces the carnage from the initial battles in Virginia's Wilderness to the gruesome hand-to-hand combat at Spotsylvania's "Bloody Angle
from a neglected hero who saved our nation's capital and went on to write one of his century's greatest novels
and suffered themselves on this great battlefield of the war
a stray Confederate sniper’s bullet
one of Early's brigades under John Gordon occupied Gettysburg and spilled the first blood there days before the bloodiest battle ever fought on American soil began on July 1
The Whartons' War The Civil War Correspondence of General Gabriel C. Wharton & Anne Radford Wharton, 1863–1865 (William C. Davis, Sue Heth Bell - DLM) wert In riveting detail Trudeau tracesby William C. Davis & Sue Heth Bell, foreward by Peter S. Carmichael Between March 1863 and July 1865, Confederate newlyweds Brigadier General Gabriel C. Wharton and Anne Radford Wharton wrote 524 letters, and all survived, unknown until now. Separated by twenty years in age and differing opinions on myriad subjects, these educated and articulate Confederates wrote frankly and perceptively on their Civil War world. Sharing opinions on generals and