[This book] presents the ... saga of how a group of West Point graduates - including Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, Jefferson Davis, Stonewall Jackson, and William Tecumseh Sherman - fought together, as brothers, two decades before the Civil War.-Dust jacket.
Nearly all of the Civil War's greatest soldiers were forged in the heat of Vera Cruz and Monterrey. The Mexican War has faded from our national memory, but it was a struggle of enormous significance: it was the first U.S war waged on foreign soil; and it nearly doubled our natio…
Nearly all of the Civil War's greatest soldiers were forged in the heat of Vera Cruz and Monterrey. The Mexican War has faded from our national memory, but it was a struggle of enormous significance: it was the first U.S war waged on foreign soil; and it nearly doubled our natio…
Nearly all of the Civil War's greatest soldiers were forged in the heat of Vera Cruz and Monterrey. The Mexican War has faded from our national memory, but it was a struggle of enormous significance: it was the first U.S war waged on foreign soil; and it nearly doubled our natio…
On the morning of April 2, 1865, Jefferson Davis received a telegram from General Robert E. Lee. There is no more time--the Yankees are coming, it warned. That night Davis fled Richmond, setting off an intense manhunt for the Confederate president. Two weeks later, President Lin…
On the morning of April 2, 1865, Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederacy, received a telegram from General Robert E. Lee. "There is no more time -- the Yankees are coming," it warned. That night Davis fled Richmond, setting off an intense manhunt for the Confederate presid…
New York Times bestselling author of Manhunt James L. Swanson creates an adaptation for young people of his adult book Bloody Crimes, a suspense-filled thriller that sheds light on two fallen leaders of the North and South. One man, President Lincoln, assassinated, on his way to…
On the morning of April 2, 1865, Jefferson Davis received a telegram from General Robert E. Lee. There is no more time--the Yankees are coming, it warned. That night Davis fled Richmond, setting off an intense manhunt for the Confederate president. Two weeks later, President Lin…
A portrait of the complex man at the center of the Civil War.
"West Point graduate, secretary of war under President Pierce, U.S. senator from Mississippi - how was it that this statesman and patriot came to be president of the Confederacy, leading the struggle to destroy the United States? This is the question at the center of William Coo…
A portrait of the complex man at the center of the Civil War.
The origins of the pro-Bonaparte democratic tradition -- John C. Calhoun, Jefferson Davis's pro-Bonaparte democratic mentor -- Jefferson Davis as the "Calhoun of Mississippi," 1844-52 -- Jefferson Davis and the "true democrats" in power, 1852-60 -- Jefferson Davis and the rise o…
"In this highly original study of Confederate ideology and politics, Jeffrey Zvengrowski suggests that Confederate president Jefferson Davis and his supporters saw Bonapartist France as a model for the Confederate States of America. They viewed themselves as struggling not so mu…