Kamis, 31 Agustus 2017

America’s Civil War Review: Decided on the Battlefield

Decided on the Battlefield: Grant, Sherman, Lincoln and the Election of 1864 David Alan Johnson Prometheus Books 2012, $27 In author David Alan Johnson makes the case that the United States Decided on the Battlefield, likely would have ceased to exist in practical terms had Lincoln lost the 1864 election to his Democratic counterpart, General …

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