Long, Obstinate, and Bloody

Download or read book Long, Obstinate, and Bloody written by Lawrence E. Babits and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2009-03-15 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On March 15, 1781, the armies of Nathanael Greene and Lord Charles Cornwallis fought one of the bloodiest and most intense engagements of the American Revolution at Guilford Courthouse in piedmont North Carolina. In Long, Obstinate, and Bloody, the first book-length examination of the Guilford Courthouse engagement, Lawrence E. Babits and Joshua B. Howard piece together what really happened on the wooded plateau in what is today Greensboro, North Carolina, and identify where individuals stood on the battlefield, when they were there, and what they could have seen, thus producing a new bottom-up story of the engagement.