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

by Michael R. Bradley

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 750,000 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0985363258
• ISBN13: 9780985363253
• Release Date: September 2022
• Publisher: Charleston Athenaeum Press
• Length: 364 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"