Author of Grant Under Fire: An Exposé of Generalship & Character in the American Civil War. Groundbreaking historiography overturns 150 years of untrue accounts
After Grant's defeat at Cold Harbor, hundreds of Union soldiers probably died unnecessarily as a result of Grant's intransigence and delay in sending a flag of truce to request a suspension of hostilities. https://t.co/kE2s5l8dvS
Joseph A. Rose vs. Dr. Brooks D. Simpson: What Really Happened on Orchard Knob and at Missionary Ridge? https://t.co/5BdU70L8Pn A Civil War controversy.
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William H. Busbey's post-war article about his being near Grant's Savannah headquarters and on Tigress during the trip to Pittsburg Landing on April 6th in the Chicago Inter-Ocean. https://t.co/2h6moXMfnh