The Training Ground: Grant, Lee, Sherman, and Davis in the

The Training Ground: Grant, Lee, Sherman, and Davis in the Mexican War, 1846-1848
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For four years during the Civil War, Generals Grant and Lee clashed as bitter enemies in a war that bloodied and scorched the American landscape. Yet in an earlier time, they had worn the same uniform and fought together.
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In The Training Ground, acclaimed historian Martin Dugard presents the saga of how, two decades before the Civil War, a group of West Point graduatesâ€”including Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, Jefferson Davis, Stonewall Jackson, and William Tecumseh Shermanâ€”fought together as brothers. Drawing on a range of primary sources and original research, Dugard paints a gripping narrative of the Mexican War, which eventually almost doubled the size of the United States.
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The Training Ground vividly takes us into the thick brush of Palo Alto, where a musket ball narrowly misses Grant but kills a soldier standing near him; through the mountains and ravines of Cerro Gordo, as Lee searches frantically for a secret route into the Mexican armyâ€™s seemingly invincible position; to Monterrey, as future enemies Davis and Grant ride together into battle; down the California coast, where war-hungry Sherman seeks blood and vengeance. And we are there as the young troops mount the final heroicâ€”and deadlyâ€”assault on Mexico City. With narrative verve and brilliant research, The Training Ground brings to light a story of brotherhood, sacrifice, and initiation by fire.
Country USA
Brand Bison Books
Manufacturer Bison Books
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber black & white illustrations, maps
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780803228122
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	Bison Books
Manufacturer	Bison Books
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	black & white illustrations, maps
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780803228122
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

The Training Ground: Grant, Lee, Sherman, and Davis in the Mexican War, 1846-1848

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