Colin Brightwell's Reviews > Grant and Sherman: The Friendship That Won the Civil War

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.