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Title: A Travesty
Review: Lionising Sherman while dismissing Grant as a plodding General is laughable.I am far from being a knowledgeable military historian but even I know the reason Sherman's March was so successful was because George H. Thomas destroyed Hood's army at Nashville, leaving him no effective resistance in his front.It was Grant who destroyed a CSA army at Chattanooga and captured two others at Donelson and Vicksburg and was the one man in the Union Army to consistently win victory after victory by sheer determination and will.The March was an excellent logistical triumph but Hanson's chapter on Sherman could be dismissed by a high-school student.For a real look at who was responsible for the Union's triumph read John Keegan's essay on Grant in The Face of Battle.
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