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.