The Last Words The Farewell Addresses of Union and Confederate Commanders to Their Men at the End of the War Between the States

<p>At the very end of the War Between the States seventeen commanders delivered farewell addresses to the men they had led through four years of hell during which 750000 died and over a million were maimed. The seventeen include General Robert E. Lee General Ulysses S. Grant Major General William T. Sherman Lieutenant-General Nathan Bedford Forrest Major General George Gordon Meade Colonel John Singleton Mosby Lieutenant-Colonel Charles T. Trowbridge (U.S. Colored Troops) General Joseph E. Johnston Major General Joseph Wheeler and Major General Robert F. Hoke.</p><p><br></p><p>Those eight Confederate and nine Union addresses are important documents in American history because they show CLEARLY what each side was fighting for.</p><p><br></p><p>Historian Michael R. Bradley has given us exciting narrative history researched in minute detail on the seventeen commanders their units battles and last words to their men. If you love history it does not get better than this.</p><p><br></p><p>Includes 47 page Prologue by historian Gene Kizer Jr. and Introduction by the author.</p>