Victors In Blue How Union Generals Fought The Confederates Battled Each Other And Won The Civil War Castel by Castel, Albert, 1928-2014 instant download after payment.

xii, 362 pages : 24 cm, \"In a book that spans the whole Civil War, the author examines how, despite infighting, the Union generals formed a cohesive unit of leadership to defeat the Confederate Army.\"--Provided by publisher, Includes bibliographical references and index, Rosecrans in West Virginia: a tale of a goose, a dog, and a fox -- Grant in Missouri and Tennessee: a tale of how a nobody became a somebody -- Grant, Halleck, and a failure to communicate -- Grant at Shiloh: how to win by not losing -- Grant advances by staying put -- Nobody at Antietam -- Grant and Rosecrans at Iuka and Corinth: the birth of a rivalry -- Rosecrans at Stones River: how a near disaster became a much-needed union -- Victory -- Meade at Gettysburg: how to win by staying put -- Grant victorious at Vicksburg: how to win by causing your enemies to -- Defeat themselves -- Rosecrans takes Chattanooga and Grant takes a fall -- Rosecrans and Thomas at Chickamauga: the fortunes and misfortunes of war -- Grant at Chattanooga: how to win a battle contrary to plan -- While Grant fails to defeat Lee, Sherman invades Georgia: circling around -- To move forward -- Grant remains stymied, Sherman takes Atlanta: decision in the west -- Sheridan in the Shenandoah -- Sherman marches to the sea, Schofield repulses Hood, and Thomas vanquishes Hood at Nashville -- Death blows: Grant, Sheridan, and Sherman win the war, but the Union generals fight on -- Epilogue: the victors in blue: who and why