Del Norte Public Library

"The High Command of the Army of the Potomac was a changeable, often dysfunctional band of brothers, going through the fires of war under seven commanding generals in three years, until Grant came east in 1864. The men in charge all too frequently appeared to be fighting against the administration in Washington instead of for it, increasingly cast as political pawns facing down a vindictive congressional Committee on the Conduct of the War. President...

Illustrations and photographs capture the daily life of the volunteer regiments and calvarymen, scenes of battlegrounds from Fort Sumpter to Petersburg, the appearance of weapons and uniforms, and profiles of front-line generals.

Presents a biography of the commander of the Union forces in the Civil War who became the eighteenth president of the United States.

Explains how Franklin D. Roosevelt assumed the role of a hands-on wartime leader, discussing his contributions to military strategy and analyzing how his decisions may have helped end or prolonged the war.