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The Battle of the Wilderness in Myth and Memory - Reconsidering Virginia's Most Notorious Civil War Battlefield (Hardcover)
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The Battle of the Wilderness in Myth and Memory - Reconsidering Virginia's Most Notorious Civil War Battlefield (Hardcover)
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In this highly revisionist study, historian Adam H. Petty tracks
how veterans and historians of the Civil War created and
perpetuated myths about the Wilderness, a forest in Virginia that
served as the backdrop for three of the war's most interesting
campaigns. This forest had a fearsome reputation among soldiers,
especially those from Union armies; many believed it to be an
exceptional landscape with a menacing mystique that created
favorable combat conditions for Lee's Army of Northern Virginia.
According to Petty, the mythology surrounding the campaigns in the
Wilderness began to take shape during the war but truly blossomed
in the postwar years, continuing into the present. Those myths, he
suggests, confounded accurate understandings of how the physical
environment influenced combat and military operations. While the
Wilderness did create difficult combat conditions, Petty refutes
claims that it was unique and favored the Confederates. Unlike
previous studies of the Wilderness, this work does not focus on a
single battle or campaign. Instead, Petty explores all the major
clashes there- Chancellorsville, Mine Run, and the battle of the
Wilderness- which allows Petty to observe changes over time,
especially regarding the attitudes and actions of generals and
soldiers. Yet Petty's study is not a narrative history of the
campaigns. Instead, he reconsiders traditional interpretations
surrounding the nature of the Wilderness and how it affected
military operations and combat. His work analyzes not only the
interaction between military campaigns and environment but also how
the memory of that interaction evolved into the myth we know today.
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