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Army of the Potomac volume 3
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Recounts the most spectacular conflicts between Grant and Lee and details the end of hope for the Confederacy in the final year of the Civil War.
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A thrilling account of the final years of the War Between the States and the great general who led the Union to victory. This conclusion of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Bruce Catton's acclaimed Civil War history of General Ulysses S. Grant begins in the summer of 1863. After Grant's bold and decisive triumph over the Confederate Army at Vicksburg - a victory that wrested control of the Mississippi River from Southern hands - President Abraham Lincoln...
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A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian's acclaimed Civil War history of the complex man and controversial. Union commander whose battlefield brilliance ensured the downfall of the Confederacy Preeminent Civil War historian Bruce Catton narrows his focus on commander Ulysses S. Grant, whose bold tactics and relentless dedication to the Union ultimately ensured a Northern victory in the nation's bloodiest conflict. While a succession of Union generals -...
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This is the story of Lincoln's famous army of the Potomac during the early years of the Civil War, when it was under the command of dashing General George B. McClellan. It is an account, gathered from diaries and letters and published reports, of the ordinary foot soldiers, who discovered that their war was grim and deadly, as wars must ever be.