{"product_id":"9780765391766","title":"Commanding Voices of Blue \u0026 Gray: General William T. Sherman, General George Custer, General James Longstreet, \u0026 Major J.S. Mosby, Among Others, in Their Own Words","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe agony and anguish of the War Between the States affected all aspects of American life. Many quarters suffered, but one in particular seemed to prosper in the postwar aftermath: the publishing industry. Though the success of \u003ci\u003ePersonal Memoirs by Ulysses S. Grant\u003c\/i\u003e (as published by Mark Twain) is a clear milestone in publishing's history of bestsellers, it was only one of many highly successful Civil War memoirs penned and published by veterans in the postwar years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNever before in America had such a plethora of eyewitness accounts of a war existed, nor so many by those in a position of command.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on the best of these accounts, most of them long out of print,\u003ci\u003e Commanding Voices of Blue\u0026amp;Gray \u003c\/i\u003epresents in a single volume the personal words of these leaders and provides an overview of the command experience in the Civil War.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelections include:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGeneral William Tecumseh Sherman on his infamous march through Georgia\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGeneral George B. McClellan on the battle of Antietam and the legendary lost order that should have tipped him off to Lee's plans\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGeneral George Armstrong Custer's experience of going straight from studying at West Point to the Battlefield\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGeneral (CSA) James Longstreet on serving under Robert E. Lee\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGeneral (CSA) G. Moxley Sorrel on serving under General James Longstreet\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMajor (CSA) J. S. Mosby on the South's guerrilla campaign\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGeneral (CSA) Jubal Early's memoir of the last year of the war\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Doherty, Tom Associates, LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47077688901872,"sku":"9780765391766","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780765391766_p0.jpg?v=1769905509","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780765391766","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}