The Destructive War
William Tecumseh Sherman, Stonewall Jackson, and the Americans
by Charles Royster
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appears in Civil War, History, and Nonfiction.
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 So...
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appears in Civil War, History, and Nonfiction.
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