General Wadsworth
Subtitle: The Life and Wars of General James S. Wadsworth
Edition: Da Capo edition
Publisher: Da Capo
Published: July 29, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780306812385
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Biography: historical; Civil war; Slavery & emancipation; c 1800 to c 1900; Military History - U.S. Civil War; U.S. History - Civil War And Reconstruction (1860-1877); History; Biography / Autobiography; History: American; USA; Historical - U.S.; Military; United States - Civil War; Biography & Autobiography-Military; History-United States - Civil War; Military - Other
First sentence: The unscheduled battle, which had begun eighteen hours earlier, had started abruptly in a dense, second-growth forest where a year earlier the Union was almost fatally defeated; where Army of the Potomac commander Major General Joseph Hooker allegedly had lost his nerve.