Hell Itself: The Battle of the Wilderness, May 5-7, 1864
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Finalist, 2016, Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Book Award
Soldiers called it one of the “waste places of nature” and “a region of gloom”—the Wilderness of Virginia, seventy square miles of dense, second-growth forest known as “the dark, close wood.”
“A more unpromising theatre of war was never seen,” said another.
Yet here, in the spring of 1864, the Civil War escalated to a new level of horror.
Ulysses S. Grant, commanding all Federal armies, opened the campaign with a vow to never t...
Soldiers called it one of the “waste places of nature” and “a region of gloom”—the Wilderness of Virginia, seventy square miles of dense, second-growth forest known as “the dark, close wood.”
“A more unpromising theatre of war was never seen,” said another.
Yet here, in the spring of 1864, the Civil War escalated to a new level of horror.
Ulysses S. Grant, commanding all Federal armies, opened the campaign with a vow to never t...






















