Described by John Esten Cooke, of JEB Stuarts staff, as one of the liveliest episodes of the late war the Bristoe Campaign was a small and seemingly unimportant event sandwiched between the battle at Gettysburg and the Wilderness bloodbath. Bristoe receives scant attention from historians, despite being an attempt by Lee, to seize the strategic initiative. Marking the decline in Confederate leadership, Lees inability to compensate, and the growing...