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- Description
- 1 online resource (xii, 362 p. :) : ill., maps.
- Series Statement
- Modern war studies
- Uniform Title
- Victors in Blue (Online)
- Book collections on Project MUSE.
- Alternative Title
- Victors in Blue (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Source of Description (note)
- Description based on print version record.
- Contents
- Rosecrans in West Virginia: a tale of a goose, a dog, and a fox -- Grant in Missouri and Tennessee: a tale of how a nobody became a somebody -- Grant, Halleck, and a failure to communicate -- Grant at Shiloh: how to win by not losing -- Grant advances by staying put -- Nobody at Antietam -- Grant and Rosecrans at Iuka and Corinth: the birth of a rivalry -- Rosecrans at Stones River: how a near disaster became a much-needed union -- Victory -- Meade at Gettysburg: how to win by staying put -- Grant victorious at Vicksburg: how to win by causing your enemies to -- Defeat themselves -- Rosecrans takes Chattanooga and Grant takes a fall -- Rosecrans and Thomas at Chickamauga: the fortunes and misfortunes of war -- Grant at Chattanooga: how to win a battle contrary to plan -- While Grant fails to defeat Lee, Sherman invades Georgia: circling around -- To move forward -- Grant remains stymied, Sherman takes Atlanta: decision in the west -- Sheridan in the Shenandoah -- Sherman marches to the sea, Schofield repulses Hood, and Thomas vanquishes Hood at Nashville -- Death blows: Grant, Sheridan, and Sherman win the war, but the Union generals fight on -- Epilogue: the victors in blue: who and why.
- OCLC
- ssj0001754758
- Author
Castel, Albert E.
- Title
Victors in Blue [electronic resource] : How Union Generals Fought the Confederates, Battled Each Other, and Won the Civil War / Albert Castel with Brooks D. Simpson.
- Imprint
Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, 2011. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
- Series
Modern war studies
Book collections on Project MUSE.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- Note
Description based on print version record.
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- Added Author
Simpson, Brooks D.
Project Muse.
- LCCN
2011029923