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Historical person
William Tecumseh Sherman was a Union general known for campaigns that targeted the Confederacy’s military resources and capacity to continue war. He helped win at Vicksburg and Chattanooga, captured Atlanta and led the March to the Sea and campaign through the Carolinas.
In Jeff Shaara’s A Blaze of Glory, Grant, William Tecumseh Sherman and their inexperienced soldiers do not expect the scale of the attack that reaches their camps on 6 April. In John Jakes’s Savannah, Hattie’s determination brings her into direct conflict with Sherman as soldiers, reporters, local officials and displaced civilians converge on the city. Other novels featuring William Tecumseh Sherman include Griff Hosker’s Rebel Raiders, John Jakes’s The Warriors, John Jakes’s Love and War, Griff Hosker’s Confederate Rangers, and Griff Hosker’s The Road to Gettysburg.
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Series
The Civil War in the West is Jeff Shaara’s four-volume sequence about campaigns beyond the more familiar eastern battlefields. It begins with A Blaze of Glory at Shiloh and continues through Vicksburg, Chattanooga, Atlanta and Sherman’s final campaigns across Georgia and the Carolinas. The books follow Ulysses S.…
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Lucky Jack’s Civil War follows cavalry and raiding in the American Civil War from the Confederate side. The books use irregular operations, scouting, raids and the road to Gettysburg to show a mobile war of risk, divided loyalties and battlefield escalation.
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The Kent Family Chronicles trace successive generations of one family from the eve of the American Revolution to the early 1890s. The saga begins with Phillipe Charboneau, the unrecognised son of an English duke, who becomes Philip Kent in America, and follows his descendants as they build, lose…
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The North and South Trilogy follows the Mains of South Carolina and the Hazards of Pennsylvania, two families joined when Orry Main and George Hazard become friends at West Point. Their bond survives the Mexican–American War and years of sectional conflict, but slavery, secession and family pressure place…
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