Five Generals: Memoirs From the Civil War

For the first time the war memoirs of four Union generals Ulysses S. Grant, William T. Sherman, Philip H. Sheridan, John A. Logan, as well as the controversial Robert E. Lee, can be found in one volume. Includes personal correspondence as well as detailed maps of battles. General, and later President Grant, has become a subject of greater interest to scholars for his efforts to support Black Americans freed from slavery during the reconstruction period and his role in defeating the first it...