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Joseph E. Johnston: A Civil War Biography (Norton Paperback)
Joseph E Johnston A Civil War Biography - Norton Paperback Author:Craig L. Symonds General Joseph E. Johnston was in command of Confederate forces at the South's first victory -- Manassas in July 1861 -- and at its last -- Bentonville in April 1886. Many contemporaries considered him the greatest Southern field commander of the war. To Grant and Sherman, he was the Union's most skillful opponent. But Johnston remains an enigm... more »a. His battlefield victories were never decisive. He failed to save Confederate forces at Vicksburg and he retreated in the face of Sherman's march. His feud with Jefferson Davis ensured the collapse of the South's western campaign and made Johnston the focus of a political schism. Craig Symonds, professor of history at the U.S. Naval Academy, gives us a rousing narrative of Johnston's Civil War and the first rounded portrait of the man.« less