Volume 53, Number 5 · March 23, 2006
Was It a Just War?
By James M. McPherson
Upon the Altar of the Nation: A Moral History ofthe American Civil War
by Harry S. Stout
Viking, 552 pp., $29.95
'War is hell,' said General William T. Sherman fifteen years after the end of a war in which he perhaps did more than anyone else to confirm that description. 'War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it,' Sherman wrote on another occasion.
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