{"product_id":"2940013274877","title":"THE SHADES OF THE WILDERNESS","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    I.  THE SOUTHERN RETREAT\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   II.  THE NORTHERN SPY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  III.  THE FLOODED RIVER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   IV.  A HERALD TO LEE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    V.  THE DANGEROUS ROAD\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   VI.  TESTS OF COURAGE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  VII.  IN THE WAGON\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e VIII.  THE CROSSING\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   IX.  IN SOCIETY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    X.  THE MISSING PAPER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   XI.  A VAIN PURSUIT\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  XII.  IN WINTER QUARTERS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e XIII.  THE COMING OF GRANT\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  XIV.  THE GHOSTLY RIDE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   XV.  THE WILDERNESS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  XVI.  SPOTTSYLVANIA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE SHADES OF THE WILDERNESS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE SOUTHERN RETREAT\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA train of wagons and men wound slowly over the hills in the darkness and\u003cbr\u003erain toward the South.  In the wagons lay fourteen or fifteen thousand\u003cbr\u003ewounded soldiers, but they made little noise, as the wheels sank suddenly\u003cbr\u003ein the mud or bumped over stones.  Although the vast majority of them\u003cbr\u003ewere young, boys or not much more, they had learned to be masters of\u003cbr\u003ethemselves, and they suffered in silence, save when some one, lost in\u003cbr\u003efever, uttered a groan.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut the chief sound was a blended note made by the turning of wheels,\u003cbr\u003eand the hoofs of horses sinking in the soft earth.  The officers gave\u003cbr\u003ebut few orders, and the cavalrymen who rode on either flank looked\u003cbr\u003esolicitously into the wagons now and then to see how their wounded\u003cbr\u003efriends fared, though they seldom spoke.  The darkness they did not mind,\u003cbr\u003ebecause they were used to it, and the rain and the coolness were a relief,\u003cbr\u003eafter three days of the fiercest battle the American continent had ever\u003cbr\u003eknown, fought in the hottest days that the troops could recall.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThus Lee's army drew its long length from the fatal field of Gettysburg,\u003cbr\u003ealthough his valiant brigades did not yet know that the clump of trees\u003cbr\u003eupon Cemetery Hill had marked the high tide of the Confederacy.  All that\u003cbr\u003ememorable Fourth of July, following the close of the battle they had lain,\u003cbr\u003efacing Meade and challenging him to come on, confident that while the\u003cbr\u003einvasion of the North was over they could beat back once more the\u003cbr\u003einvasion of the South.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47069847421168,"sku":"2940013274877","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013274877_p0.jpg?v=1763579033","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013274877","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}