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Crucible of commmand : Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee -- the war they fought, the peace they forged
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- ISBN: 9780306822469 (ebook)
- ISBN: 0306822458 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 9780306822452 (hardcover)
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Physical Description:
xxi, 629 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
print - Publisher: Boston, MA : Da Capo Press, a Member of the Perseus Books Group, [2014]
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 593-607) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Icons -- Sons and fathers -- School of the soldier -- Fighting on the same side -- Times of trial -- A crisis made for them -- "What has become of Gen. Lee?", "Who is General Grant?" -- Lee frustrated and Grant victorious -- Shiloh and sevens -- Lee victorious and Grant frustrated -- "What have we to live for if not victories?" -- Two rivers to cross -- July 1863 -- Hints of the inevitable -- "If defeated nothing will be left us to live for" -- "A mere question of time" -- Meeting again -- Grant and Lee in 1868 -- The last meeting. |
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| Homer Public Library | 973.7 DAV (Text) | 000120541 | Nonfiction | Available | - |
Crucible of Command : Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee - The War They Fought, the Peace They Forged
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Crucible of Command : Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee - The War They Fought, the Peace They Forged
William C. Davis is the author or editor of more than fifty books in the fields of Civil War and Southern history, as well as numerous documentary screenplays. A three-time winner of the Jefferson Davis Award, given for book-length works in Confederate History, he was senior consultant for the A&E Network's 52-episode documentary series Civil War Journal . He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission and serves on several other consultative bodies. He lives in Blacksburg, Virginia.
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