On May 5 and 6, 1864, in a rugged area of tangled woods and brush on the south side of the Rapidan River in Virginia, Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee met for the first time on a Civil War battlefield. The vicious, confused fighting lasted for two days. Though no clear victor emerged, neither conceded defeat, and the death-grapple thus commenced continued for nearly a year. Now available in paperback, Edward Steere's thorough, accurate history, originally published in 1960, was the first full-scale study of the Battle of the Wilderness and remains a principal source on the conflict. “A painstaking, thorough, and revealing study of one of the Civil War’s most important campaigns. It throws much new and valuable light on the logistics and on the generalship of Grant and Lee” –Bell I. Wiley, author of The Life of Billy Yank, the Life of Johnny Reb, and Confederate Women. -- Bell I. Wiley “A superb pieces of technical military history, characterized by thoroughness, accuracy, and insight… It is…an enduring contribution to our military history.” –David Donald, the New York Herald Tribune ― New York Herald-Tribune "A painstaking, thorough, and revealing study of one of the Civil War's most important campaigns. It throws much new and valuable light on the logistics and on the generalship of Grant and Lee." -Bell I. Wiley, author of The Life of Billy Yank, The Life of Johnny Reb, and Confederate Women Used Book in Good Condition