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The destructive war, William Tecumseh Sherman, Stonewall Jackson, and the Americans, Charles Royster

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The destructive war, William Tecumseh Sherman, Stonewall Jackson, and the Americans, Charles Royster

Language

eng

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Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

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illustrationsmaps

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The destructive war

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bibliography

Oclc number

22907203

Responsibility statement

Charles Royster

Sub title

William Tecumseh Sherman, Stonewall Jackson, and the Americans

Summary

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

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