No turning back : a guide to the 1864 Overland Campaign, from the Wilderness to Cold Harbor, May 4-June 13, 1864

"Historians Robert M. Dunkerly, Donald C. Pfanz, and David R. Ruth allow readers to follow in the footsteps of the armies as they grapple across the Virginia landscape. Pfanz spent his career as a National Park Service historian on the battlefields where the campaign began; Dunkerly and Ruth work on the battlefields where it concluded. Few people know the ground, or the campaign, better."
"""[T]here will be no turning back, "" said Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant. It was May, 1864. The Civil War had dragged into its fourth spring. It was time to end things, Grant resolved, once and for all. With the Union Army of the Potomac as his sledge, Grant crossed the Rapidan River, intending to draw the Army of Northern Virginia into one final battle. Short of that, he planned ""to hammer continuously against the armed forces of the enemy and his resources, until by mere attrition, if in no other way, there should be nothing left to him ... ""Almost immediately, though, Robert E. Lee's Confede."@en

"No turning back : a guide to the 1864 Overland Campaign, from the Wilderness to Cold Harbor, May 4-June 13, 1864"
"No turning back : a guide to the 1864 Overland Campaign, from the Wilderness to Cold Harbor, May 4-June 13, 1864"@en