Biographies of the Civil War and Reconstruction

Biographies of the Civil War and Reconstruction — page 5
BIOGRAPHIES OF THE CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTIONR ABRAHAM LINCOLN ROBERT LEE Ulysses at times seemed uneasy with the idea of war itself for example when he expressed in a letter to his son before the outbreak of the war his deep dismay at a union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets and in which strife and civil war are to take the place of brotherly love and kindness Aside from the issues that led to the war and the rationales of the soldiers involved in the conflict readers of this book will also learn quite a bit about the presidents of the time and their lives before tak ing office Included within are interesting details such as which president once sold real estate which was a tailor which had his name changed because of the 19th century equivalent of a typo courtesy of West Point which one attended school for only a year and which one did not go to school at all But this book goes well beyond the lives of the presidents who served in this era Readers will also learn about the famous Confederate general who seriously wounded in battle died soon thereafter as a result of friendly fire and about the life of the well known Union general who much to 10