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Between May 5 and June 3, 1864, the Union and Confederate armies endured 88,000 casualties.  Twenty-nine thousand were murdered, injured or captured in the very first two nights of fight. The savagery surprised a, split nation.  Against this background of the delivery of modern warfare and the unpleasant revival of america, Ny Times-Bestselling author Ralph Peters has generated a spectacular story that exceeds the drama and depth of his current critically-acclaimed book, Cain at Gettysburg.In Heck or Richmond, four weeks of ceaseless carnage are noticed through the eyes of a compelling throw, in the Union’s Harvard-valedictorian “boy standard,” Francis Channing Barlow, towards the brawling “dirty boots” Rebel colonel, William D. Oates.  From Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E.