345 pp. 8vo. Two panel map precedes title page, four maps in text. An account of the Battle of the Wilderness and other events of the American Civil War, written by a West Point graduate who served as a first lieutenant, and as assistant to the Chief of Ordnance of the Army of the Potomac. From insert: "The wounding of Longstreet, which the author considers the determining factor of the campaign if not of the whole war, Gordon's charge, and a score of other striking events in this memorable struggle are pictured with wonderful force. Grant, Sheridan, Meade, Hancock and Pickett, observed in the intimate relations of daily life as well as in the crisis of battle, have a new and strongly human appeal. Anecdotes of humbler men - a dashing aide-de-camp, a wounded confederate, a heroic surgeon, a forgotten soldier in the ranks, or a negro wagon-driver - are told with a reality and vim that bring brilliantly before the reader's eye every feature of camp life and war..."
