The Heart of Hell

The Soldiers' Struggle for Spotsylvania's Bloody Angle

De: Jeffry D. Wert

Narrado por: Al Kessel

Duración: 9 h y 57 m

Resumen del Editor

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 less than the length of a rifle barrel. One Union private recalled the fighting as a "seething, bubbling, soaring hell of hate and murder." By the time Lee's troops established a new fortified line in the predawn hours of May 13, some 17,500 officers and men from both sides had been killed, wounded, or captured when the fighting ceased. The site of the most intense clashes became forever known as the Bloody Angle.

Here, renowned military historian Jeffry D. Wert draws on the personal narratives of Union and Confederate troops who survived the fight to offer a gripping story of Civil War combat at its most difficult. Wert's harrowing tale reminds us that the war's story, often told through its commanders and campaigns, truly belonged to the common soldier.

©2022 Jeffry D. Wert (P)2022 Tantor

The soldier’s’ perspectives

Concise examination of the fighting in the Mule Shoe salient at Spotsylvania Courthouse on May 12, 1864.

GREAT STORY READ BY COMPUTER

Great content but narrated by a computer generated voice. Hard to listen to. I love it and hate it at the same time. If that doesn't bother you will enjoy it but it's like nails on a chalkboard to those it does bother. The author deserved better and his book was worthy of a human being reading it.