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The Destructive War

William Tecumseh Sherman, Stonewall Jackson, and the Americans

William Tecumseh Sherman, Stonewall Jackson, and the Americans

By Charles Royster

By Charles Royster

By Charles Royster

By Charles Royster

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Part of Vintage Civil War Library

Part of Vintage Civil War Library

Paperback $19.95

Jan 11, 1993 | ISBN 9780679738787

Ebook $13.99

Sep 14, 2011 | ISBN 9780307760593

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    About The Destructive War

    From the moment the Civil War began, partisans on both sides were calling not just for victory but for extermination. And both sides found leaders who would oblige. In this vivid and fearfully persuasive book, Charles Royster looks at William Tecumseh Sherman and Stonewall Jackson, the men who came to embody the apocalyptic passions of North and South, and re-creates their characters, their strategies, and the feelings they inspired in their countrymen. At once an incisive dual biography, hypnotically engrossing military history, and a cautionary examination of the American penchant for patriotic bloodshed, The Destructive War is a work of enormous power.

    About The Destructive War

    From the moment the Civil War began, partisans on both sides were calling not just for victory but for extermination. And both sides found leaders who would oblige. In this vivid and fearfully persuasive book, Charles Royster looks at William Tecumseh Sherman and Stonewall Jackson, the men who came to embody the apocalyptic passions of North and South, and re-creates their characters, their strategies, and the feelings they inspired in their countrymen. At once an incisive dual biography, hypnotically engrossing military history, and a cautionary examination of the American penchant for patriotic bloodshed, The Destructive War is a work of enormous power.

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    About Charles Royster

    Charles Royster is a historian, a teacher, and an author. He served as the Boyd Professor of History at Louisiana State University and is the recipient of the Bancoft, Parkman, and Lincoln Prizes. His works include Light-Horse Harry Lee, The Destructive… More about Charles Royster

    About Charles Royster

    Charles Royster is a historian, a teacher, and an author. He served as the Boyd Professor of History at Louisiana State University and is the recipient of the Bancoft, Parkman, and Lincoln Prizes. His works include Light-Horse Harry Lee, The Destructive… More about Charles Royster

    Product Details

    Category: Civil War Period | Military History | Biography & Memoir

    Paperback | $19.95
    Published by Vintage
    Jan 11, 1993 | 560 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780679738787

    Category: Civil War Period | Military History | Biography & Memoir

    Ebook | $13.99
    Published by Vintage
    Sep 14, 2011 | 560 Pages | ISBN 9780307760593
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    Praise

    "Royster’s intriguing analyses fill every page with new information and offer a fresh interpretation of our bloodiest conflict…exhaustively researched, artistically written, brilliantly argued."

    — Boston Globe



    "Parts of The Destructive War are as good as anything written…during the last generation…a masterful narrative."

    — Washington Post Book World

    "A fascinating history of the ideas held by the people who fought the war…fresh, intriguing, philosophical." — Detroit Free Press

    "An illuminating interpretation." — Wall Street Journal

    Winner of the Lincoln Prize

    Awards

    Bancroft Prize WINNER 1992

    Charles S. Sydnor Award WINNER 1992

    Lincoln Prize WINNER 1992

    Table Of Contents

    List of Illustrations
    Preface

    1. The Destruction of Columbia

    2. The Aggressive War: Jackson

    3. The Aggressive War: Sherman

    4. The Anomalous War

    5. The Death of Stonewall

    6. The Vicarious War

    7. The Battle of Kennesaw Mountain

    8. The Destructive War
    —Part I: The Last Year
    —Part II: The War and the Future of the Nation

    9. The Grand Review

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