Bloody Autumn

An "essential addition to serious students'' libraries" detailing the historic military offensive that helped sway the outcome of the American Civil War (Civil War News). In the late summer of 1864, Union General-in-Chief Ulysses S. Grant set one absolutely unconditional goal: to sweep Virginia''s Shenandoah Valley "clean and clear." His man for the job: Maj. Gen. "Little Phil" Sheridan—a temperam...