1864 was quite a year for Father Abraham. This book peels the onion on famous battles and not-so-famous political operatives, the Abraham's Emancipation Proclamation and an unknown soldier's widow asking for rent money. Charles Bracelen Flood dives deep into the details of the assassination at...
Ulysses S Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman never met until late in 1861. Yet they forged a friendship that would save the Union and last until the end of the days. At critical junctures in the war, each came to the others defense as both military superiors and politicians called for their hea...