A TEMPEST OF IRON AND LEAD: Spotsylvania Court House, May 8-21, 1864

In May 1864 the Army of the Potomac and the Army of Northern Virginia spent three days in brutal close-quarter combat in the Wilderness that left the tangled thickets aflame. No one could have imagined a more infernal battlefield--until the armies moved down the road to the Spotsylvania Court House. Well illus.