Sheridan's secret mission : how the South won the war after the Civil War
(2024)
By:
Cwiklik, Robert
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
973.82/CWIKLIK,R
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2024]
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
viii, 226 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780062950642, 0062950649 :, 0062950649, 9780062950642
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
An impeccably researched, character-driven narrative history recounting the fascinating late-Reconstruction Era mission of General Philip Sheridan, a Union hero dispatched to the South ten years after the Civil War to protect the rights of newly freed black men, who were under siege by violent paramilitary groups like the White League intent on erasing their postwar gains