Bloody Spring: Forty Days that Sealed the Confederacy's Fate

An action-packed account of forty crucial days in Virgina during the spring of 1864—the turning point in America's Civil War.

"[Wheelan's] prose fairly gallops across the page." —Wall Street Journal

In the spring of 1864, Robert E. Lee faced a new adversary: Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant. Named commander of all Union armies in March, Grant quickly went on the offensive against Lee in Virginia. On May four, Grant's army struck hard across the Rapidan River into north-central Virginia wit...