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- English
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About this book
This dual Civil War biography presents "[a] powerful and illuminating study of a military collaboration that won the war for the Union" (Josiah Bunting III,
Washington Post).
"We were as brothers," William Tecumseh Sherman said, describing his relationship to Ulysses S. Grant. They were incontestably two of the most important figures in the Civil War, but until now there has been no book about their victorious partnership and the deep friendship that made it possible.
They were prewar failures: Grant was forced to resign from the Regular Army because of his drinking, and Sherman had moved from one job to the next in the years before the conflict. But heeding the call to save the Union, each struggled past political hurdles to join the war effort. And after taking each other's measure at the Battle of Shiloh, they began their unique collaboration.
Often together under fire on the war's great battlefields, they also supported each other in the face of mudslinging criticism by the press and politicians. Sharing the demands of family life and the heartache of loss, they built a mutual admiration and trust which President Lincoln increasingly relied upon. Though their headquarters were hundreds of miles apart, they communicated almost daily, strategizing the final moves of the war and planning how to win the peace that would follow.
"We were as brothers," William Tecumseh Sherman said, describing his relationship to Ulysses S. Grant. They were incontestably two of the most important figures in the Civil War, but until now there has been no book about their victorious partnership and the deep friendship that made it possible.
They were prewar failures: Grant was forced to resign from the Regular Army because of his drinking, and Sherman had moved from one job to the next in the years before the conflict. But heeding the call to save the Union, each struggled past political hurdles to join the war effort. And after taking each other's measure at the Battle of Shiloh, they began their unique collaboration.
Often together under fire on the war's great battlefields, they also supported each other in the face of mudslinging criticism by the press and politicians. Sharing the demands of family life and the heartache of loss, they built a mutual admiration and trust which President Lincoln increasingly relied upon. Though their headquarters were hundreds of miles apart, they communicated almost daily, strategizing the final moves of the war and planning how to win the peace that would follow.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Epigraph
- Table of Contents
- PROLOGUE
- 1 - TWO FAILED MEN WITH GREAT POTENTIAL
- 2 - GRANT AWAKENS
- 3 - SHERMAN GOES IN
- 4 - GRANT MOVES FORWARD, WITH SHERMAN IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
- 5 - THE BOND FORGED AT SHILOH
- 6 - POLITICAL PROBLEMS, MILITARY CHALLENGES: THE VICKSBURG CAMPAIGN DEVELOPS
- 7 - THE SIEGE OF VICKSBURG
- 8 - PAIN AND PLEASURE ON THE LONG ROAD TO CHATTANOOGA AND MISSIONARY RIDGE
- 9 - CONFUSION AT CHATTANOOGA
- 10 - GRANT AND SHERMAN BEGIN TO DEVELOP THE WINNING STRATEGY
- 11 - SHERMAN SAVES LINCOLNâS PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN
- 12 - PROFESSIONAL JUDGMENT AND PERSONAL FRIENDSHIP: SAVANNAH FOR CHRISTMAS
- 13 - THE MARCH THROUGH THE CAROLINAS, AND AN ADDITIONAL TEST OF FRIENDSHIP
- 14 - GRANT, SHERMAN, AND ABRAHAM LINCOLN HOLD A COUNCIL OF WARâAND PEACE
- 15 - âI NOW FEEL LIKE ENDING THE MATTERâ: GRANTâS FINAL OFFENSIVE
- 16 - THE DAYS AFTER APPOMATTOX: JOY AND GRIEF
- 17 - SHERMAN IN TROUBLE
- 18 - GRANT, SHERMAN, AND THE RADICALS
- 19 - A PARADE FOR EVERYONE, AND A HEARING FOR SHERMAN
- 20 - THE PAST AND FUTURE MARCH UP PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE
- L'ENVOI
- About the Author
- Praise for Grant and Sherman
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INDEX
- Copyright Page