If It Takes All Summer: The Battle of Spotsylvania (Civil War America)

by William D. Matter

Book Overview

The termination of the war and the fate of the Union hung in the balance in May of 1864 as Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia and Ulysses S. Grant's Army of the Potomac clashed in the Virginia... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807817813
• Release Date: October 1988
• Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 471 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.8" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

Reader from Maine

If you really want a serious consideration of what happened at Spotsylvania, I highly recommend William Matter's book. While other works may offer an entertaining read, Matter avoids clogging his work with anecdotal material, useless hearsay and speculation, and offers as near an accurate view of what really happened as we are likely to get.