The Destructive War: William Tecumseh Sherman, Stonewall Jackson, and the AmericansKnopf, 1991 - 523 páginas From the moment the Civil War began, partisans on both sides were calling not just for victory but for extermination. And both sides found leaders who would oblige. In this vivid and fearfully persuasive book, Charles Royster looks at William Tecumseh Sherman and Stonewall Jackson, the men who came to embody the apocalyptic passions of North and South, and re-creates their characters, their strategies, and the feelings they inspired in their countrymen. At once an incisive dual biography, hypnotically engrossing military history, and a cautionary examination of the American penchant for patriotic bloodshed, The Destructive War is a work of enormous power. "From the Trade Paperback edition." |
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... called on them , at least briefly , almost every day of their six - week stay . He renewed the acquaintance in 1857 , and they were married on July 16 . Within two weeks of the wedding she became pregnant . For the first time , Jackson ...
... called on them , at least briefly , almost every day of their six - week stay . He renewed the acquaintance in 1857 , and they were married on July 16 . Within two weeks of the wedding she became pregnant . For the first time , Jackson ...
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... called unionism amounted in his eyes only to expedient , deceitful efforts to save property after the Federal army had arrived in overwhelm- ing force . Loyalty oaths were worthless . Southerners had to be defeated , not liberated . To ...
... called unionism amounted in his eyes only to expedient , deceitful efforts to save property after the Federal army had arrived in overwhelm- ing force . Loyalty oaths were worthless . Southerners had to be defeated , not liberated . To ...
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... called " forces as irresistible as those of a volcano " had made eighteenth - century political ideas irrelevant . The resort to war thus came not as a single cataclysmic crisis but as the continuation of a historical process wherein ...
... called " forces as irresistible as those of a volcano " had made eighteenth - century political ideas irrelevant . The resort to war thus came not as a single cataclysmic crisis but as the continuation of a historical process wherein ...
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