Looking for a book recommendation

Civil War, anything by Shelby Foote

The Great War in Modern Memory
WW I book. Great!!!!

Rebel yell by S. C. Gwynne

have you checked out the YouTube channel The Great War?

I'm reading Sherman's Memoirs now. It's very interesting. I'm from Tallulah so the parts about the Vicksburg campaign are very interesting. The march through Georgia as well. The politics and officers jockeying for position are very interesting as well. After Sherman ran Hardee out of Savannah Hardee sent him a note asking him to take care of his family as they were still in Savannah. Lots of communication between Sherman and the Confederate generals he was maneuvering against.

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Sherman ran Hardee out of Savannah

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he better not go after Arby

The Guns of August.

Rebel Yell
Killer Angels

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I'm reading Sherman's Memoirs now. It's very interesting. I'm from Tallulah so the parts about the Vicksburg campaign are very interesting. The march through Georgia as well. The politics and officers jockeying for position are very interesting as well. After Sherman ran Hardee out of Savannah Hardee sent him a note asking him to take care of his family as they were still in Savannah. Lots of communication between Sherman and the Confederate generals he was maneuvering against.

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Those guys all knew each other, had gone to West Point together, had served in the Mexican War and on the frontier together. They had stood in one another's weddings, had named their children after one another-- and now they were fighting one another.

Sherman was the first US general to embrace the modern doctrine of Total War (although not the first in the world--Napoleon arguably developed the concept during his Peninsular Campaign). As such, he gets a lot of villification. But he also did a lot to help his former adversaries once hostilities ended, going so far as to secure jobs for some of them. And without his direct assistance, LSU probably doesn't get reestablished after the war.

The killer angels