Bloody Spring, Joseph Wheelan
Bloody Spring, Joseph Wheelan
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Bloody Spring
Forty Days That Sealed the Confederacy’s Fate

Author: Joseph Wheelan

Narrator: Grover Gardner

Unabridged: 14 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/29/2014

Synopsis

A unique and compelling examination of the Civil War's "turning point"—forty crucial days in the spring of 1864 that turned the tide for the UnionIn the spring of 1864, Robert E. Lee faced a new adversary: Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant. Named commander of all Union armies in March, Grant quickly went on the offensive against Lee in Virginia. On May 4 Grant's army struck hard across the Rapidan River into north central Virginia, with Lee's army contesting every mile. They fought for forty days until, finally, the Union army crossed the James River and began the siege of Petersburg.The campaign cost ninety thousand men—the largest loss the war had seen. While Grant lost nearly twice as many men as Lee did, he could replace them. Lee could not and would never again mount another major offensive. Lee's surrender at Appomattox less than a year later was the denouement of the drama begun in those crucial forty days.

About Joseph Wheelan

Joseph Wheelan, a graduate of the University of Wyoming and University of Colorado at Denver, is the author of several books, including the highly acclaimed Terrible Swift Sword and Jefferson’s War. Before turning to writing books full time, he was a reporter and editor for the Associated Press for twenty-four years, where he also wrote about the Korean War.

About Grover Gardner

Grover Gardner is an award-winning narrator with over a thousand titles to his credit. Named one of the “Best Voices of the Century” and a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine, he has won three prestigious Audie Awards, was chosen Narrator of the Year for 2005 by Publishers Weekly, and has earned more than thirty Earphones Awards.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bill

There are individual books about each of the battles of the Wilderness, Spotsylvania Court House and Cold Harbor during the spring of 1864. In the interest of efficiency, I chose to read this book about the entire Overland Campaign that incorporates them all. As a “narrative history” of the campaign......more

Goodreads review by Porter

I listened to the audio book which was narrated by Grover Gardiner. He is a phenomenal narrator. That being said, while this was an interesting and well done book, it really didn't add anything new. I would definately recommend it to somebody wanting to learn about the Civil War, but for somebody who......more

Goodreads review by Chuck

Joseph Wheelan's "Bloody Spring - Forty Days that Sealed the Confederacy's Fate" is about the 1864 "Overland Campaign". Wheelan's book is both a well written history, and an organizational study. As a history, Wheelan covers the period from US Grants planning of the campaign through the Army of the......more

Goodreads review by Ozymandias

This is a book that sets out to cover an important period in the American Civil War – the moment when the war turned from being an indecisive back and forth to being a steady march towards near-inevitable Union victory. As he sees it this all occurred in the first forty days of Grant’s invasion of V......more

Quotes

“The author of Terrible Swift Sword: The Life of Philip H. Sheridan and other works about the Civil War returns with a tactic-by-tactic, blow-by-blow account of the sanguinary actions between the forces of Ulysses Grant and Robert E. Lee near the end of the war…Well-researched and -argued—a text that Civil War scholars and buffs will consume with glee.” Kirkus Reviews

“Joseph Wheelan has delivered an exciting and crisply written biography.” Wall Street Journal on Terrible Swift Sword

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