Bloody Prominade by Stephen Cushman

[samgrant]

Here's something different. A book about the Battle of the Wilderness in which the description of the battle itself is contained in 2 and 1/2 pages.

The author is an English Professor and a poet, not a historian.

What we get is a sort of meditation on his reflections of the War, and the Wilderness in particular.

He examines the Battle of the Wilderness through the lenses of eyewitness accounts, newspapers and magazines of the time, memoirs, histories and historical narratives, fiction, and poety.

For me it was a satisfying read. Definitely makes one think about how contemporary people learned about and thought about the battle and the war as a whole.

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[Dred]

I tend to scoff books that are not strict documentary type books, but after reading the excerpt this seems like it could be a very interesting read. Thanks for the tip!