Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Wilderness, and Spotsylvania formed the bloodiest landscape in North America and vividly reflected the Civil War's cost in all its forms. A city was bombarded, bloodied, and looted, farms large and small were ruined, and refugees by the thousands were forced into the countryside. More than 85,000 men were wounded and 15,000 killed, most now in graves unknown. The fading scars of battle, the home places of bygone families, and granite tributes to those who fought still mark these lands. These places reveal the trials of a community and nation at war, a virtuous tragedy that freed four million Americans and reunited a nation.