The Heart of Hell: The Soldiers' Struggle for Spotsylvania's Bloody Angle (Jeffry D. Wert - CWC) averasboro by Catherine Clinton

by Catherine Clinton

Under the Crescent Moon (a reference to the crescent badge assigned to the corps) is the first study of this misunderstood organization

descriptions of field hospitals

Sleeplessness plagued the Union and Confederate armies

Rosecrans worried the North would “overlook so great an event because it is not written in letters of blood”—and history proved him right

The Heart of Hell: The Soldiers' Struggle for Spotsylvania's Bloody Angle (Jeffry D. Wert - CWC) averasboro by Catherine Clintonby Jeffry D. Wert The struggle over the fortified Confederate position known as Spotsylvania's Mule Shoe was without parallel during the Civil War. A Union assault that began at 4: 30 A. M. on May 12, 1864, sparked brutal combat that lasted nearly twenty four hours. By the time Grant's forces withdrew, some 55,000 men from Union and Confederate armies had been drawn into the fury, battling in torrential rain along the fieldworks at distances often