A detailed study of the brutal and pivotal battle at Spotsylvania Court House, May 8-21, 1864.
May 1864. The Army of the Potomac and the Army of Northern Virginia spent three days in brutal close-quarter combat in the Wilderness that left the tangled thickets aflame. No one could have imagined a more infernal battlefield--until the armies moved down the road to Spotsylvania Court House.
Even the march itself was unprecedented...