Partners In Command By Joseph Glatthaar

Partners In Command By Joseph Glatthaar
Partners In Command By Joseph Glatthaar

Explores the productive friendships of such contrasting personalities as Grant

And Sherman and Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson, bringing to life the struggle between McClellan and Lincoln and Jefferson Davis and Joseph E. Johnston. .


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