Oft-overlooked, in the history books and by battlefielders, is the North Anna battlefield-scene of one of the biggest Civil War battles that never happened.
It wasn’t for a lack of trying, though. Ulysses S. Grant, punch-drunk exhausted from the grueling pace he’d set for his army, stumbled into a trap set by Robert E. Lee, who was so delirious with illness that he was unable to spring it in time.
Read on, Macduff, at
Emerging Civil War.