Bloody roads South
Subtitle: the Wilderness to Cold Harbor, May-June 1864
By: Noah Andre Trudeau ; with a new preface by the author.
Edition: Lousiana paperback ed.
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Baton Rouge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 354
Subjects: Wilderness, Battle of the, Va., 1864.; Spotsylvania Court House, Battle of, Va., 1864.; North Anna River, Battle of, Va., 1864.; Cold Harbor, Battle of, Va., 1864.; Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns.
Description: "In this chronicle of the 1864 Overland Campaign in Virginia, Noah Andre Trudeau re-creates the brutal forty days that marked the beginning of the end of the Civil War. In riveting detail Trudeau traces the carnage from the initial battles in Virginia's Wilderness to the gruesome hand-to-hand combat at Spotsylvania's "Bloody Angle," to the ingenious trap laid by Lee at the North Anna River, to the killing ground of Cold Harbor."

"Through eyewitness accounts, he relates the human stories behind this epic saga. Common soldiers struggle to find the words to describe the agony of their comrades, incredible tales of individual valor, their mortality. Also recounting their experiences are the women who nursed these soldiers and black troops who were getting their first taste of battle. The raw vitality of battle sketches by Edwin Forbes and Alfred R. Waud complement the words of the participants."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [326]-337) and index.
Originally published: Boston : Little, Brown, 1989.