| | 1 | Author: | Wood, Laura | Add | | | Title: | Manuscript Draft: Walter Reed: Doctor in Uniform, by Laura Wood, [19—]  | | | | Published: | 2001 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | It was the spring of 1865, and the Civil War was almost
over. Petersburg had been under siege since June, 1864. At
this little Virginia city Robert E. Lee's half-starved, half-clad
army -“Lee's Miserables,” they called themselves, in allusion to
Victor Hugo's somber classic -had checked the advance toward
Richmond, the Confederate capital, of the Union commander Ulysses
S. Grant, who was determined to end the war by capturing the nerve
center of southern resistance. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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