McClellan, Sherman, and Grant | 
 enlarge | Author: T. Harry Williams
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee, Publisher
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 1057573
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 113
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.1 x 0.4
ISBN: 0929587707
Dewey Decimal Number: 973.70922
EAN: 9780929587707
ASIN: 0929587707
Publication Date: August 25, 1991
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How the temperaments and moral courage of the three great Union generals affected their military leadership--explored with intelligence and wit by one of our most distinguished historians of the Civil War.
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 wisconsin connection November 2, 2008
I love to read about the Civil War, especially when the author was Wisconsin-educated. I have my own kind of connection to him since I became good friends with his first wife many years after she helped him produce his earliest published writings about the War.
 Great insight on three significant generals February 22, 2004
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This short book is really three separate essays about three of the North's most controversial generals. They seem to be arranged in the author's estimation of them, with McClellan being the poorest general and Grant the best. The essays are insightful, and Williams argues some interesting points that differ from what most historians believe, especially in the case of Sherman and McClellan. Throughout it all, he seems to remain, for the most part, fair, neither condemning nor fully praising any of the three. I don't personally agree with his argument that the primary objective in war should be destroying the enemy's army, and thus would rank Sherman higher than Grant, but I do think he makes an interesting point. If this book was documented (that is, if Williams showed where he got his information), it would be a lot better, and a lot more scholarly, but as it stands it is nevertheless an interesting argument on three of the North's most important generals.
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