THE ARMIES OF U.S. GRANT
The Armies of U.S. Grant by James R. Arnold, Arms and Armour, London, distributed by Sterling, New York, 320 pages, $29.95. Arnold traces Ulysses S. Grant’s lineage of Civil War commands from colonel of the 21st Illinois Infantry through general in chief of the Union army.
Whether they produced battlefield images of the dead or daguerreotype portraits of common soldiers, […]
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