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Grant and Sherman: The Friendship That Won the Civil War
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A damn good book detailing the professional and personal relationship of Union generals Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman during the Civil War. This book does a decent job of giving you the basic facts - it doesn’t go into overly annoying detail and yet it doesn’t just skim over the important stuff. It’s a good introduction for readers and armchair historians of the Civil War. I also admire that this book does not whitewash the darker aspects of the character of these men - such as Sherman’s view of slavery and African-Americans in general.
Since Grant has been in the news lately due to his statue being toppled, I found it fitting to read this. For all of his faults - and he was an American man, God knows he had plenty - he was still the embodiment of what we want this country to be - never backing down in the face of personal defeat, and to keep on when the going is too rough.
Since Grant has been in the news lately due to his statue being toppled, I found it fitting to read this. For all of his faults - and he was an American man, God knows he had plenty - he was still the embodiment of what we want this country to be - never backing down in the face of personal defeat, and to keep on when the going is too rough.
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March 2, 2020
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