The Whartons' War The Civil War Correspondence of General Gabriel C. Wharton & Anne Radford Wharton, 1863–1865 (William C. Davis, Sue Heth Bell - DLM) wert In riveting detail Trudeau traces

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

Release Date: August 2

from a neglected hero who saved our nation's capital and went on to write one of his century's greatest novels

Edna Greene Medford focuses on the African American experience in the final year of the war

We can only guess at how the war might have changed had so many not been killed

The Whartons' War The Civil War Correspondence of General Gabriel C. Wharton & Anne Radford Wharton, 1863–1865 (William C. Davis, Sue Heth Bell - DLM) wert In riveting detail Trudeau tracesby William C. Davis & Sue Heth Bell, foreward by Peter S. Carmichael Between March 1863 and July 1865, Confederate newlyweds Brigadier General Gabriel C. Wharton and Anne Radford Wharton wrote 524 letters, and all survived, unknown until now. Separated by twenty years in age and differing opinions on myriad subjects, these educated and articulate Confederates wrote frankly and perceptively on their Civil War world. Sharing opinions on generals and