The Heart of Hell: The Soldiers' Struggle for Spotsylvania's Bloody Angle (Jeffry D. Wert - CWC) averasboro The young correspondent witnesses how

The young correspondent witnesses how the citizens of Gettysburg react to the fight that came to their small town in this work of historical fiction

and its environs

by Catherine Clinton

Shae Smith Cox (Contributor)

The Heart of Hell: The Soldiers' Struggle for Spotsylvania's Bloody Angle (Jeffry D. Wert - CWC) averasboro The young correspondent witnesses howby Jeffry D. Wert The struggle over the fortified Confederate position known as Spotsylvania's Mule Shoe was without parallel during the Civil War. A Union assault that began at 4: 30 A. M. on May 12, 1864, sparked brutal combat that lasted nearly twenty four hours. By the time Grant's forces withdrew, some 55,000 men from Union and Confederate armies had been drawn into the fury, battling in torrential rain along the fieldworks at distances often