William S. Rosecrans and the Union Victory: A Civil War Biography

by David Moore and David G. Moore

Book Overview

This is the first biography of Union General William S. Rosecrans in more than fifty years. It tells the story of his military successes and the important results that led to the Union victory in the Civil War: winning the first major campaign of the war in West Virginia in 1861; victories in northeastern Mississippi that made the Vicksburg Campaign possible; gaining the victory without which Abraham Lincoln said the "nation could scarcely have lived...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786476249
• ISBN13: 9780786476244
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc.
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher