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Page 1 Battle in the Wilderness Grant Meets Lee

Page 2 CIVIL WAR CAMPAIGNS AND COMMANDERS SERIES AVAILABLE SPRING 1995 Texans in the Confederate Cavalry by Anne J. Bailey Death in September: The Antietam Campaign by Perry D. Jamieson Sam Bell Maxey and the Confederate Indians by John C. Waugh FORTHCOMING TITLES, FALL 1995 General James Longstreet in the West: A Monumental Failure by Judith Lee Hallock Battle of the Crater by Jeff Kinard The Saltville Massacre by Tom Mays

Page 3 Battle in the Wilderness Grant Meets Lee Grady McWhiney MCWHINEY FOUNDATION PRESS MCMURRY UNIVERSITY ABILENE, TEXAS

Page 4 Cataloging-in-Publication Data McWhiney, Grady. Battle in the Wilderness: Grant meets Lee / by Grady McWhiney. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN: 1-886661-00-6 1. Wilderness, Battle of the, VA., 1864. I. Title E476.52.M39 1995 973.7'36 QBI94-21300 Copyright 1998, MCWHINEY FOUNDATION PRESS All Rights Reserved McMurry Station, Box 637 Abilene, TX 79697-0637 No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means without written permission from the MCWHINEY FOUNDATION PRESS. Printed in the United States of America ISBN 1-886661-00-6 10987654321 Book Designed by Rosenbohm Design Group We gratefully acknowledge the assistance of the Library of Congress, from whose collection all except one of the photographs in this book have been reproduced. For the photograph of Alfred Moore Scales, we acknowledge the North Carolina State Department of Cultural Resources. All inquiries regarding volume purchases of this book should be addressed to MCWHINEY FOUNDATION PRESS, McMurry Station, Box 637, Abilene, TX 79697-0637. Telephone inquiries may be made by calling (915) 691-6681.

Page 5 A NOTE ON THE SERIES Few segments of America's past excite more interest than Civil War battles and leaders. This ongoing series of brief, lively, and authoritative booksCivil War Campaigns and Commanderssalutes this passion with inexpensive and accurate accounts that are readable in a sitting. Each volume, separate and complete in itself, nevertheless conveys the agony, glory, death, and wreckage that defined America's greatest tragedy. In this series, designed for Civil War enthusiasts as well as the newly recruited, emphasis is on telling good stories. Photographs and biographical sketches enhance the narrative of each book, and maps depict events as they happened. Sound history is meshed with the dramatic in a format that is just lengthy enough to inform and yet satisfy. Grady McWhiney General Editor

Page 7 Contents 1. Roads to the Wilderness 13 2. What Manner of Men 22 3. Crossing the Rapidan 33 4. "Let the Men Rest" 53 5. "Those Men Are Not Whipped" 68 6. "The Coolest Man I Ever Saw" 85 Appendix A. Organization of Federal Forces 92 Appendix B. Organization of Confederate Forces 109 Further Reading 122 Index 126

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Page 9 Maps The Rappahannock and Rapidan 14 Lee's and Grant's Major Battles, 18621863 17 Grant's Plan 27 Roads through the Wilderness 34

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