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A Fire in the Wilderness: The First Battle Between Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee by John Reeves
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602697 to listen full audiobooks.
Title: A Fire in the Wilderness: The First Battle Between Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee
Author: John Reeves
Narrator: Danny Campbell
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 8 hours 50 minutes
Release date: September 20, 2022
Genres: The Americas
Publisher's Summary:
The riveting account of the first bloody showdown between Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee—a battle that sealed the fate of the Confederacy and changed the course of American history. At the outset of the Battle of the Wilderness, General Lee's Army of Northern Virginia remained capable of defeating the Army of the Potomac. But two days of relentless fighting in dense Virginia woods, Robert E. Lee was never again able to launch offensive operations against Grant's army. Lee, who faced tremendous difficulties replacing fallen soldiers, lost 11,125 men—or 17% of his entire force. On the opposing side, the Union suffered 17,666 casualties. The alarming casualties do not begin to convey the horror of this battle, one of the most gruesome in American history. The impenetrable forest and gunfire smoke made it impossible to view the enemy. Officers couldn't even see their own men during the fighting. The incessant gunfire caused the woods to catch fire, resulting in hundreds of men burning to death. 'It was as though Christian men had turned to fiends, and hell itself had usurped the place of the earth,' wrote one officer. When the fighting finally subsided during the late evening of the second day, the usually stoical Grant threw himself down on his cot and cried.
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By thebookvoice.comPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602697 to listen full audiobooks.
Title: A Fire in the Wilderness: The First Battle Between Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee
Author: John Reeves
Narrator: Danny Campbell
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 8 hours 50 minutes
Release date: September 20, 2022
Genres: The Americas
Publisher's Summary:
The riveting account of the first bloody showdown between Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee—a battle that sealed the fate of the Confederacy and changed the course of American history. At the outset of the Battle of the Wilderness, General Lee's Army of Northern Virginia remained capable of defeating the Army of the Potomac. But two days of relentless fighting in dense Virginia woods, Robert E. Lee was never again able to launch offensive operations against Grant's army. Lee, who faced tremendous difficulties replacing fallen soldiers, lost 11,125 men—or 17% of his entire force. On the opposing side, the Union suffered 17,666 casualties. The alarming casualties do not begin to convey the horror of this battle, one of the most gruesome in American history. The impenetrable forest and gunfire smoke made it impossible to view the enemy. Officers couldn't even see their own men during the fighting. The incessant gunfire caused the woods to catch fire, resulting in hundreds of men burning to death. 'It was as though Christian men had turned to fiends, and hell itself had usurped the place of the earth,' wrote one officer. When the fighting finally subsided during the late evening of the second day, the usually stoical Grant threw himself down on his cot and cried.