The first book-length study about the bloody, chaotic Battle of Fort Gregg: "Sweeping . . . insightful . . . military history at its best." — Civil War NewsBy April 2, 1865, General Ulysses S. Grant's men had tightened their noose around the vital town of Petersburg, Virginia. Trapped on three sides with a river at their back, the soldiers from General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia had never faced such dire circumstances. To give Lee time to cr...

An account of Confederate cavalry general Jeb Stuart's daring 110-mile ride behind Union lines during the American Civil War.Many people are aware that Jeb Stuart was a famous cavalry general who rode for the Confederacy. Yet, how did this twenty-nine-year-old former US Army lieutenant become the 1860s version of a media sensation?At the beginning of June 1862, George McClellan's huge Union Army stood poised to decimate the Confederate capital of Richmond. ...