Bloody Spring : Forty Days That Sealed the Confederacy's Fate
(2014)
By:
Wheelan, Joseph
Nonfiction
eAudiobook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Blackstone Publishing, 2014
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EDITION
Unabridged
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource (1 audio file (14hr., 11 min.)) : digital
ISBN/ISSN
9781982446116 MWT11081603, 1982446110 11081603
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Read by Grover Gardner
In the spring of 1864, Robert E. Lee faced a new adversary: Ulysses S. Grant. Named commander of all Union armies in March, Grant quickly went on the offensive against Lee in Virginia. On May 4 Grant's army struck hard across the Rapidan River, with Lee's army contesting every mile. They fought for forty days until the Union army crossed the James River and began the siege of Petersburg. The campaign cost ninety thousand men
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