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Narrado por:
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Felbrigg Napoleon Herriot
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Charles Oman
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FNH Audio presents a slightly abridged performance of this sixth volume of Charles Oman's military history classic. In this sixth volume, a detailed examination is made of the period from September 1812 to August 1813. This volume covers the Siege of Burgos, the retreat from Burgos, the Vittoria campaign and the battles of the Pyrenees.
This history, written many years after Napier's, draws its information from more firsthand accounts and corrects some of the more glaring mistakes and biases of Napier. Although this audiobook is slightly abridged, the only text removed is a small number of footnotes written entirely in French. All English text from the appendices and footnotes is present.
Volume one of this set is available under the title A History of the Peninsular War 1807-1809. Volume two of this set is available under the title A History of the Peninsular War Volume 2: January-September 1809. Volume three of this set is available under the title A History of the Peninsular War Volume 3: September 1809-December 1810. The fourth volume of the set is available under the title A History of the Peninsular War Volume 4: December 1810-December 1811. Volume five of this set is available under the title A History of the Peninsular War Volume 5: October 1811 to August 1812.
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 48
In July 1883, just a few days after the 20th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, a group of editors at the Century magazine engaged in a lively argument: Which Civil War battle was the bloodiest battle of them all? One claimed it was Chickamauga, another Cold Harbor. The argument inspired a brainstorm: Why not let the magazine’s 125,000 readers in on the conversation by offering “a series of papers on some of the great battles of the war, to be written by officers in command on both sides.”
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3 out of 5 stars
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A good audiobook with one big flaw
- De William M. en 12-03-15
De: Harold Holzer
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Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant
- De: Ulysses S. Grant
- Narrado por: Robin Field
- Duración: 29 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,589
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,345
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,341
Among the autobiographies of great military figures, Ulysses S. Grant’s is certainly one of the finest, and it is arguably the most notable literary achievement of any American president: a lucid, compelling, and brutally honest chronicle of triumph and failure. From his frontier boyhood, to his heroics in battle, to the grinding poverty from which the Civil War ironically rescued him, these memoirs are a mesmerizing, deeply moving account of a brilliant man told with great courage.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Surprisingly funny and very informative.
- De Trent en 08-20-12
De: Ulysses S. Grant
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Chancellorsville
- De: Stephen Sears
- Narrado por: Richard Davidson
- Duración: 23 h y 14 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 229
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 197
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 193
A former editor of American Heritage, Stephen W. Sears has collected a wealth of new sources for this definitive portrait of one of the most dramatic battles of the Civil War. Using scores of letters and diaries written by soldiers from both Union and Confederate armies, Sears’ narrative history seeks to strip away the gloss of later commentary and restore the battle of Chancellorsville to its original voices.
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5 out of 5 stars
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It's a Wonderful Tool
- De Drake M. Davis en 08-23-14
De: Stephen Sears
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The Seven Days
- The Emergence of Robert E. Lee and the Dawn of a Legend
- De: Clifford Dowdey
- Narrado por: Nicholas Tecosky
- Duración: 12 h y 39 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 141
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 132
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 132
The Seven Days Campaign was a series of battles fought near Richmond at the end of June 1862. General Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia had routed General George B. McClellan’s Army of the Potomac. Depriving McClellan of a military decision meant the war would continue for two more years. The Seven Days depicts a critical turning point in the Civil War that would ingrain Robert E. Lee in history as one of the finest generals of all time.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The Seven Days:A different Title would work
- De Margaret Harley en 09-10-21
De: Clifford Dowdey
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The Civil War: A Narrative, Volume I, Fort Sumter to Perryville
- De: Shelby Foote
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 42 h y 58 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 5,201
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,914
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3,907
The Civil War: A Narrative, Volume 1 begins one of the most remarkable works of history ever fashioned. All the great battles are here, of course, from Bull Run through Shiloh, the Seven Days Battles, and Antietam, but so are the smaller ones: Ball's Bluff, Fort Donelson, Pea Ridge, Island Ten, New Orleans, and Monitor versus Merrimac.
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5 out of 5 stars
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OUTSTANDING! I'M PROUD TO BE A BLACK AMERICAN!!
- De The Louligan en 08-22-13
De: Shelby Foote
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To the Gates of Richmond
- The Peninsula Campaign
- De: Stephen Sears
- Narrado por: Nelson Runger
- Duración: 17 h y 9 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 178
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 155
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 155
It was the largest campaign ever attempted in the Civil War: the Peninsula campaign of 1862. General George McClellan planned to advance from Yorktown up the Virginia Peninsula and destroy the Rebel army in its own capital. But with Robert E. Lee delivering blows to the Union army, McClellan’s plan fell through at the gates of Richmond.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Magnificent chronicle of mismanagement
- De Triceracop en 10-08-13
De: Stephen Sears
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On to Petersburg
- Grant and Lee, June 4-15, 1864
- De: Gordon C. Rhea
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 16 h y 21 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 57
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 48
On to Petersburg follows the Union army's movement to the James River, the military response from the Confederates, and the initial assault on Petersburg, which Rhea suggests marked the true end of the Overland Campaign. Beginning his account in the immediate aftermath of Grant's three-day attack on Confederate troops at Cold Harbor, Rhea argues that the Union general's primary goal was not - as often supposed - to take Richmond, but rather to destroy Lee's army by closing off its retreat routes and disrupting its supply chain.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Important to understanding the Overland Campaign
- De Jimbo en 12-29-19
De: Gordon C. Rhea
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The Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant: Part 1: The Early Years, West Point, Mexico
- De: Ulysses S. Grant
- Narrado por: Peter Johnson
- Duración: 4 h y 55 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 237
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 147
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 147
Ulysses S. Grant, 18th President of the United States and commander of the Union forces in the Civil War, tells the story of his life in his own words. In this opening volume, Grant covers his early years, including his time at the U.S. military academy at West Point and his service during the Mexican War under Zachary Taylor. Grant wrote his memoirs in order to rescue his family from debt and they were published as he lay dying of throat cancer. Today, they are an American classic.
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4 out of 5 stars
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U.S Grant: A Man of Intelligence and Dignity
- De Robert W. Gillespie en 08-28-03
De: Ulysses S. Grant
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The Early Morning of War: Bull Run, 1861 (Campaigns and Commanders Series)
- De: Edward G. Longacre
- Narrado por: Aaron Killian
- Duración: 22 h y 31 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 44
When Union and Confederate forces squared off along Bull Run on July 21, 1861, the Federals expected this first major military campaign would bring an early end to the Civil War. But when Confederate troops launched a strong counterattack, both sides realized the war would be longer and costlier than anticipated. First Bull Run, or First Manassas, set the stage for four years of bloody conflict that forever changed the political, social, and economic fabric of the nation. It also introduced the commanders, tactics, and weaponry that would define the American way of war through the turn of the twentieth century.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best book of this early battle
- De Bradley Behrhorst en 09-02-22
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Lincoln's Lieutenants
- The High Command of the Army of the Potomac
- De: Stephen W. Sears
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 32 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 188
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 171
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 172
The high command of the Army of the Potomac was a changeable, often dysfunctional band of brothers, going through the fires of war under seven commanding generals in three years, until Grant came east in 1864. The men in charge all too frequently appeared to be fighting against the administration in Washington instead of for it, increasingly cast as political pawns facing down a vindictive congressional Committee on the Conduct of the War.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good, but not what I thought
- De Paul S. en 08-10-17
De: Stephen W. Sears
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All the King's Men
- The British Soldier from the Restoration to Waterloo
- De: Saul David
- Narrado por: Sean Barrett
- Duración: 18 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 109
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 105
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 104
The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Saul David's comprehensive history, All the King's Men: The British Soldier from the Restoration to Waterloo, read by the actor Sean Barrett. "The British soldier," wrote a Prussian officer who served with Wellington, "is vigorous, well fed, by nature highly brave and intrepid, trained to the most vigorous discipline, and admirably well-armed...
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5 out of 5 stars
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A grand epic
- De Mark Henman en 09-03-12
De: Saul David
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Grant Moves South
- De: Bruce Catton
- Narrado por: Bronson Pinchot
- Duración: 17 h y 58 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 263
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 238
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 237
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.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Riveting history with a great narration
- De Roberta Rothwell en 01-11-18
De: Bruce Catton
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Military Memoirs of a Confederate
- De: Edward Porter Alexander
- Narrado por: Traber Burns
- Duración: 25 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 46
One of the most important and objective firsthand accounts of the Civil War. Unlike some other Confederate memoirists, General Edward Porter Alexander objectively evaluated and criticized prominent Confederate officers, including Robert E. Lee. The result is a clear-eyed assessment of the bloody conflict that divided but subsequently united the nation.
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3 out of 5 stars
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The first one I may exchange
- De Brian en 05-27-20
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A Campaign of Giants: The Battle for Petersburg, Volume 1
- From the Crossing of the James to the Crater
- De: A. Wilson Greene, Gary W. W. Gallagher - foreword
- Narrado por: Paul Woodson
- Duración: 25 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 30
Grinding, bloody, and ultimately decisive, the Petersburg Campaign was the Civil War's longest and among its most complex. Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee squared off for more than nine months in their struggle for Petersburg, the key to the Confederate capital at Richmond. Featuring some of the war's most notorious battles, the campaign played out against a backdrop of political drama and crucial fighting elsewhere, with massive costs for soldiers and civilians alike.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Well documented and fills a big gap
- De Ripley en 10-29-24
De: A. Wilson Greene, y otros
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The Story of the Malakand Field Force
- De: Winston Churchill
- Narrado por: Ric Jerrom
- Duración: 10 h y 16 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 28
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 30
In 1897, a young and untested cavalry lieutenant named Winston Churchill, more than a little keen to see action, got himself attached as a press correspondent to an expeditionary force newly formed to restore order on the North West Frontier of India. His dispatches to the London Daily Telegraph were later expanded into this audiobook.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Another excellent entry from WSC.
- De J. Grzeskiewicz en 03-22-16
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Kennesaw Mountain
- Sherman, Johnston, and the Atlanta Campaign
- De: Earl J. Hess
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 10 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 130
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 114
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 113
While fighting his way toward Atlanta, William T. Sherman encountered his biggest roadblock at Kennesaw Mountain, where Joseph E. Johnston’s Army of Tennessee held a heavily fortified position. The opposing armies confronted each other from June 19 to July 3, 1864, and Sherman initially tried to outflank the Confederates. His men endured heavy rains, artillery duels, sniping, and a fierce battle at Kolb’s Farm before Sherman decided to attack Johnston’s position directly on June 27.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Thorough and detailed.
- De MAC24211 en 09-06-20
De: Earl J. Hess
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Lee and His Men at Gettysburg
- The Death of a Nation
- De: Clifford Dowdey
- Narrado por: Kevin Stillwell
- Duración: 12 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 25
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 25
In this sweeping account Clifford Dowdey recreates one of the most important battles in U.S. history. With vivid and breathtaking detail, Lee and His Men at Gettysburg is both a historical work and an honorary ode to the almost 50,000 soldiers who died at the fields of Pennsylvania. Written with an emphasis on the Confederate forces, the book captures the brilliance and frustration of a general forced to contend with overwhelming odds and in-competent subordinates.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Solid book
- De Scooter Reviews en 12-08-17
De: Clifford Dowdey
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Born to Battle
- Grant and Forrest: Shiloh, Vicksburg, and Chattanooga: The Campaigns that Doomed the Confederacy
- De: Jack Hurst
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 15 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 53
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 50
Born to Battle examines the Civil War’s complex and decisive western theater through the exploits of its greatest figures: Ulysses S. Grant and Nathan Bedford Forrest. These two opposing giants squared off in some of the most epic campaigns of the war, starting at Shiloh and continuing through Perryville, Vicksburg, Chickamauga, and Chattanooga - battles in which the Union would slowly but surely divide the western Confederacy, setting the stage for the final showdowns of this bloody and protracted conflict.
De: Jack Hurst