The Battle of the Wilderness May 5-6, 1864 by Gordon C. Rhea - 1994

Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1994 Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, LA. 1994. Hardcover. First Printing by Line Number. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Near Fine; small scuff on top of front board. DJ: As New. Gold boards with green overlay on the spine with bright gilt lettering on the spine. 512 pp 8vo. Fought in a tangled forest fringing the south bank of the Rapidan River, the Battle of the Wilderness marked the initial engagement in the climactic months of the Civil War in Virginia, and the first encounter between GEN Grant and GEN Lee. This book provides the consummate recounting of that conflict of May 5 and 6, 1964 which ended with high casualties on both sides but no clear victor. A clean pristine copy.