Victors in blue
Subtitle: how Union generals fought the Confederates, battled each other, and won the Civil War
By: Albert Castel with Brooks D. Simpson
Contributors: Simpson, Brooks D.
Series: Modern war studies
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Lawrence, Kan
Language: eng
Number of pages: 362
ISBN-13: 9780700617937
Subjects: United States; Generals; Campaigns; Command of troops; United States. Army; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Rosecrans in West Virginia: a tale of a goose, a dog, and a fox; title: Grant in Missouri and Tennessee: a tale of how a nobody became a somebody; title: Grant, Halleck, and a failure to communicate; title: Grant at Shiloh: how to win by not losing; title: Grant advances by staying put; title: Nobody at Antietam; title: Grant and Rosecrans at Iuka and Corinth: the birth of a rivalry; title: Rosecrans at Stones River: how a near disaster became a much-needed union; title: Victory; title: Meade at Gettysburg: how to win by staying put; title: Grant victorious at Vicksburg: how to win by causing your enemies to; title: Defeat themselves; title: Rosecrans takes Chattanooga and Grant takes a fall; title: Rosecrans and Thomas at Chickamauga: the fortunes and misfortunes of war; title: Grant at Chattanooga: how to win a battle contrary to plan; title: While Grant fails to defeat Lee, Sherman invades Georgia: circling around; title: To move forward; title: Grant remains stymied, Sherman takes Atlanta: decision in the west; title: Sheridan in the Shenandoah; title: Sherman marches to the sea, Schofield repulses Hood, and Thomas vanquishes Hood at Nashville; title: Death blows: Grant, Sheridan, and Sherman win the war, but the Union generals fight on; title: Epilogue: the victors in blue: who and why.