Describes the Wilderness Campaign in May and June of 1864.

A collection of eight essays which examine the different aspects of this battle which lead to Lee's surrender and the end of the Civil War.

"From 5 to 6 May in 1864, a dark woodland south of the Rapidan River known as the Wilderness rang with the clamor of battle. The musketry and cheers of the troops of the Confederacy and the Union were deafening as charge gave way to countercharge. Fires erupted which consumed the dead and wounded, filling the air with the stench of burning flesh. The battle of the Wilderness was what many witnesses would describe as "hell on earth."" "The Wilderness...

News from the war again hits hard at the Brannon farm, now behind enemy lines. Of the two brothers left there, one decides to find vengeance on the Yankees in the henandoah Valley.