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Victors in Blue : How Union Generals Fought the Confederates, Battled Each Other, and Won the Civil War /
"In a book that spans the whole Civil War, the author examines how, despite infighting, the Union generals formed a cohesive unit of leadership to defeat the Confederate Army."--Provided by publisher.
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lawrence, Kan. :
University Press of Kansas,
2011.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Rosecrans in West Virginia: a tale of a goose, a dog, and a fox
- Grant in Missouri and Tennessee: a tale of how a nobody became a somebody
- Grant, Halleck, and a failure to communicate
- Grant at Shiloh: how to win by not losing
- Grant advances by staying put
- Nobody at Antietam
- Grant and Rosecrans at Iuka and Corinth: the birth of a rivalry
- Rosecrans at Stones River: how a near disaster became a much-needed union
- Victory
- Meade at Gettysburg: how to win by staying put
- Grant victorious at Vicksburg: how to win by causing your enemies to
- Defeat themselves
- Rosecrans takes Chattanooga and Grant takes a fall
- Rosecrans and Thomas at Chickamauga: the fortunes and misfortunes of war
- Grant at Chattanooga: how to win a battle contrary to plan
- While Grant fails to defeat Lee, Sherman invades Georgia: circling around
- To move forward
- Grant remains stymied, Sherman takes Atlanta: decision in the west
- Sheridan in the Shenandoah
- Sherman marches to the sea, Schofield repulses Hood, and Thomas vanquishes Hood at Nashville
- Death blows: Grant, Sheridan, and Sherman win the war, but the Union generals fight on
- Epilogue: the victors in blue: who and why.