A Successful Civil War Partnership Grant and Sherman: The Friendship That Won the Civil War. Charles Bracelen Flood. Farrar, Straws and Giroux. 460 pages; maps; photographs; notes; index; $27.
Military history is replete with successful partnerships that have shaped the course of the wars in which they fought. Whereas the majority of Civil War historians concentrate on Confederate generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson, few battlefield leaders have been as successful as Union commanders Ulysses S. Grant and William T. Sherman. Over the course of the bloody strife, their friendship won the Civil War. In the latest analysis of President Abraham Lincoln's field commanders, …
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