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Chris’s Latest Book: The Battle of the Wilderness

Layout 1Historian-in-Residence Chris Mackowski has a new book coming out this spring that touches on one of the area’s most notorious battles. Hell Itself: The Battle of the Wilderness, May 5-7, 1864, covers the opening engagement of what became the 1864 Overland Campaign. (The battle of Spotsylvania Court House, where Stevenson Ridge is located, followed on May 8-21, 1864.)

Chris has written books about Spotsylvania, as well as the next phase of the campaign, at the North Anna River, and the Emerging Civil War Series he writes for also has a book on the final phase of the campaign, the battle of Cold Harbor. “It’s a little ironic that the last book we wrote about the campaign is actually the first battle of the campaign,” Chris admits.

Proceeds from the sale of the book will go to support the Friends of the Wilderness battlefield. More information about Hell Itself, including a description of the book, is available at Emerging Civil War.