WORTHY OPPONENTS: WILLIAM T. SHERMAN & JOSEPH E. JOHNSTON == ANTAGONISTS IN WAR, FRIENDS IN PEACE by Edward G. Longacre
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Worthy Opponents: William T. Sherman & Joseph E. Johnston -- Antagonists in War, Friends in Peace by Edward G. Longacre
When the Civil War broke out in 1861, William Tecumseh Sherman and Joseph E. Johnston were hardly aware of each other. They had grown up on opposite sides of the Mason-Dixon Line with separate passions, convictions, and goals in life. Only something as tragic and monumental as civil war could bring two such distinct men to a remarkable friendship.
Worthy Opponents chronicles the lives of these two soldiers, beginning with Johnston's early years in southern Virginia and Sherman's youth in Ohio as foster son of a U.S. senator, to their education at West Point.
In April 1861, Johnston and Sherman began to wage war against each other's nations. Occasionally they directly confronted each other, which led to their mutual respect. Sherman's burning of Atlanta helped re-elect Abraham Lincoln. Johnston, Sherman believed, was the shrewdest, cleverest opponent he had ever faced. At the end of the war, these two generals tried to negotiate a just and lenient peace, which, if not for the interference of the Federal Government, might have changed the face of the Reconstruction Period in the South.
After the war, Johnston and Sherman became friends. One of Minnie Sherman's daughters remembers "a most vivid impression of her grandfather and the Confederate general bending low over Civil War maps as the re-fought their mutual battles. General Johnston's bald head still shining in her memory." At the family's request, Johnston was an honorary pallbearer at Sherman's funeral.
In Worthy Opponents Ed Longacre presents a vivid picture of these two rivals, antagonists, and eventual friends.
Rutledge Hill Press, Hardcover, 2006
This is a BRAND NEW book.
When the Civil War broke out in 1861, William Tecumseh Sherman and Joseph E. Johnston were hardly aware of each other. They had grown up on opposite sides of the Mason-Dixon Line with separate passions, convictions, and goals in life. Only something as tragic and monumental as civil war could bring two such distinct men to a remarkable friendship.
Worthy Opponents chronicles the lives of these two soldiers, beginning with Johnston's early years in southern Virginia and Sherman's youth in Ohio as foster son of a U.S. senator, to their education at West Point.
In April 1861, Johnston and Sherman began to wage war against each other's nations. Occasionally they directly confronted each other, which led to their mutual respect. Sherman's burning of Atlanta helped re-elect Abraham Lincoln. Johnston, Sherman believed, was the shrewdest, cleverest opponent he had ever faced. At the end of the war, these two generals tried to negotiate a just and lenient peace, which, if not for the interference of the Federal Government, might have changed the face of the Reconstruction Period in the South.
After the war, Johnston and Sherman became friends. One of Minnie Sherman's daughters remembers "a most vivid impression of her grandfather and the Confederate general bending low over Civil War maps as the re-fought their mutual battles. General Johnston's bald head still shining in her memory." At the family's request, Johnston was an honorary pallbearer at Sherman's funeral.
In Worthy Opponents Ed Longacre presents a vivid picture of these two rivals, antagonists, and eventual friends.
Rutledge Hill Press, Hardcover, 2006
This is a BRAND NEW book.
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