Commanding Voices of Blue & Gray: General William T. Sherman, General George Custer, General James Longstreet, & Major J.S. Mosby, Among Others, in Their Own Words

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Synopsis
The agony and anguish of the War Between the States affected all aspects of American life. Many quarters suffered, but one in particular seemed to prosper in the postwar aftermath: the publishing industry. Though the success of Personal Memoirs by Ulysses S. Grant (as published by Mark Twain) is a clear milestone in publishing's history of bestsellers, it was only one of many highly successful Civil War memoirs penned and published by veterans in the postwar years.Never before in America had such a plethora of eyewitness accounts of a war existed, nor so many by those in a position of command.Drawing on the best of these accounts, most of them long out of print, Commanding Voices of Blue & Gray presents in a single volume the personal words of these leaders and provides an overview of the command experience in the Civil War.Selections include:General William Tecumseh Sherman on his infamous march through GeorgiaGeneral George B. McClellan on the battle of Antietam and the legendary lost order that should have tipped him off to Lee's plansGeneral George Armstrong Custer's experience of going straight from studying at West Point to the BattlefieldGeneral (CSA) James Longstreet on serving under Robert E. LeeGeneral (CSA) G. Moxley Sorrel on serving under General James LongstreetMajor (CSA) J. S. Mosby on the South's guerrilla campaignGeneral (CSA) Jubal Early's memoir of the last year of the warAt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Copyright:
2002

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Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:
9780765391766
Related ISBNs:
9780765305831
Publisher:
Tor Publishing Group
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Copyrighted By:
Brian M. Thomsen
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
History, Military, Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs
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Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:
Brian M. Thomsen

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