Long Obstinate and Bloody

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 <i>Long Obstinate and Bloody</i> 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.