num_pages: 464
description: Few historical figures are as inextricably linked as Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee. But less than two decades before they faced each other as enemies at Appomattox they had been brothers -- both West Point graduates both wearing blue and both fighting in the same cadre in the Mexican War. They were not Sherman Davis Jackson nearly all of the Civil War's greatest soldiers had been 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 the first U.S. war waged on foreign soil; and it nearly doubled our nation.At this fascinating juncture of American history a group of young men came together to fight as friends only years later to fight as enemies. This is their story. Full of dramatic battles daring rescues secret missions soaring triumphs and tragic losses The Training Ground is history at its finest.
language: English
title: The Training Ground: Grant, Lee, Sherman, and Davis in the Mexican War, 1846-1848
publisher: Little, Brown and Company