Full name: Grant and Sherman: The Friendship That Won the Civil War

Author: Charles Bracelen Flood Year: 2005 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, War/Military, Biographies, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780061148712 0061148717

They were both prewar failures--Grant, forced to resign from the Regular Army because of his drinking, and Sherman, holding four different jobs, including a much-loved position at a southern military academy--in the years before the firing on Fort Sumter. They began their unique collaboration ten months into the war, at the Battle of Shiloh, each carefully taking the other's measure. They shared the demands of family life and the heartache of personal tragedy. They shared similar philosophies of battle, employed similar strategies and tactics, and remained in close, virtually daily communication throughout the conflict. They were incontestably two of the Civil War's most important figures, and the deep, abiding friendship they shared made the Union's ultimate victory possible. Poignant, riveting, and elegantly written, Grant and Sherman is a remarkable portrait of two extraordinary men and a singular friendship, forged on the battlefield, that would change the course of history. Similar books: 1864 by Charles Bracelen Flood Grant Takes Command by Bruce Catton Grant Moves South by Bruce Catton Southern Storm by Noah Andre Trudeau Terrible Swift Sword by Bruce Catton Pursuit to Appomattox by Jerry Korn Embattled Courage by Gerald Linderman Landscape Turned Red by Stephen W. Sears Mr. Lincoln's Army by Bruce Catton The Destructive War by Charles Royster Great Battles of the Civil War by John Macdonald Lincoln and His Generals by T. Harry Williams George B. McClellan by Stephen W. Sears Captain Sam Grant by Lloyd Lewis For Cause and Comrades by James M. McPherson Campaigning with Grant by Horace Porter The Wright Brothers by David McCullough Empire of the Summer Moon by S. C. Gwynne The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester Mobituaries by Mo Rocca