Ebook: A Season of Slaughter: the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, May 8-21, 1864

COVER; PAGE2; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; DEDICATION; TOURING THE BATTLEFIELD; TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; PROLOGUE; CHAPTER ONE: The Campaign; CHAPTER TWO: Out of the Wilderness; CHAPTER THRE: Todd's Tavern; CHAPTER FOUR: Laurel Hill; CHAPTER FIVE: The Death of "Uncle John" Sedgwick; CHAPTER SIX: Upton's Attack; CHAPTER SEVEN: The First Day of Rain; CHAPTER EIGHT: the Mule Shoe; CHAPTER NINE: the Mule Shoe; CHAPTER TEN: the Mule Shoe; CHAPTER ELEVEN: Heth's Salient; CHAPTER TWELVE : Myer's Hill; CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Mud and Maneuver; CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Engineering Over Infantry.;""I intend to fight it out along this line if it takes all summer, "" Union commander Ulysses S. Grant wrote to Washington after he'd opened his Overland Campaign in the spring of 1864. His resolve entirely changed the face of warfare. Promoted to command of all the Federal armies, the new lieutenant general chose to ride shotgun with the Army of the Potomac as it once again threw itself against the wily, audacious Robert E. Lee and his Army of Northern Virginia. But Grant did something no one else had done before: he threw his army at Lee over and over again. At Spotsylvania Court House, the seco.