Grant, Selected Letters 1839-1865'' and ''Memoirs of General W. ''Memoirs and Selected Letters: Personal Memoirs of U. for securing to them and their descendants a government of law and stability.'' Grant praised Sherman similarly in January 1865, remarking on ''how noble a man he is'' and adding: ''IĪm glad to say that I appreciated Sherman from the first feeling him to be what he has proven to the world he is.'' if you can continue as heretofore to be yourself, simple, honest, and unpretending, you will enjoy through life the respect and love of friends, and the homage of millions of ''You are now Washington's legitimate successor,'' But they quickly learned they could count on one another and forged an unshakable personal and professional bond. Men experienced difficult times early in the Civil War. Native Ohioans and graduates of West Point who resigned from the antebellum Army, both Grant was steady, reticent and self-assured, Sherman brilliant, volatile and self-critical.

Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman formed a remarkable team. Gallagher's most recent books are ''Fighting for the Confederacy: The Personal Recollections of General Edward Porter Alexander'' and the forthcoming ''Struggle for the Shenandoah.''Įdited by Mary Drake McFeely and William S. Section 7, Column 1 Book Review Deskīy GARY W.

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Grant's memoirs