Volume 52, Number 20 · December 15, 2005
The Bloody Partnership
By James M. McPherson
Nothing but Victory: The Army of the Tennessee, 1861–1865
by Steven E. Woodworth
Knopf, 760 pp., $40.00
Grant and Sherman: The Friendship That Won the Civil War
by Charles Bracelen Flood
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 460 pp., $27.00
The authors of the two new Civil War narratives under review are not shy about stating their central theses. The Union Army of the Tennessee, writes Steven Woodworth, was 'the most effective fighting force on the continent' by 1864. It 'won the decisive battles in the decisive theater of the war' while other Union armies were losing battles or barely holding their own. Charles Bracelen Flood agrees. The personal rapport and professional partnership between Ulysses S. Grant and William T. Sherman, who successively commanded the Army of the Tennessee from 1861 to 1864, was 'the friendship that won the Civil War.'
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