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Title: Nothing But Insight
Review: Nothing But Victory is a good history of the Civil War in the West, the Atlanta Campaign, and Sherman's marches through Georgia and the Carolinas. This book is strongest up through the end of the Vicksburg campaign. The Army's progress from groups of naive civilians to veteran soldiers through their early experiences at Belmont, Forts Henry and Donelson, and the terrible ordeal at Shiloh is detailed and well researched. There is a good description of Sherman's little known Meridian campaign that foreshadowed the March to the Sea. The passage on the Battle of Atlanta is a great narrative of the Army's eventually victorious reaction to its third great surprise during the war, the others being at Fort Donelson, and at Shiloh.
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