The armies of Alesso di’Marente and Valedan kai di’Leonne are massing in the Terrean of Averda for the battle that will at last determine the rule of the Dominion. Sheridan, an enthusiastic hunter and conservationist, later ordered the US cavalry to occupy and operate Yellowstone National Park to safeguard it from commercial exploitation.ĭescription: The final novel of the acclaimed Sun Sword series concludes the epic of a war-torn world of noble houses divided and demon lords unleashed. After the war, Sheridan ruthlessly suppressed the raiding Plains Indians much as he had the Confederates, by killing warriors and burning villages, but he also defended reservation Indians from corrupt agents and contractors. Sheridan's innovative cavalry tactics and 'total war' strategy became staples of twentieth-century warfare. Lee's surrender at Appomattox Courthouse.

Yet, before Sherman's famous march through Georgia, it was General Sheridan who introduced scorched-earth warfare to the South, and it was his Cavalry Corps that compelled Robert E. Sheridan is the least known of the triumvirate of generals most responsible for winning the Civil War. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman, Philip H. General McClellan (impaled in these pages on the arrogant words of his letters) captured more imaginations than enemies, and continued to accept serious over estimates of Confederate strength while becoming more and more fatally estranged from his own government.ĭescription: Alongside Ulysses S.

Failed to drive ahead-for reasons good and bad. Buell, Halleck, Beauregard Albert Sidney Johnston. After these first tests at arms, reputations began to crumble. The earliest engagements were halting and inconclusive. As the buildup began, there were maddening delays. Cautious generals inexperienced, incompetent, or jealous administrators shortages of good people and supplies excess of both gloom and optimism, kept each side from swinging into decisive action. At first, it was not even much of a fight. Lincoln kept insisting, a fight to reunite the United States. It was not initially a war against slavery.

And then the author reveals how the sweeping force of all-out conflict changed the war’s purpose, in turning it into a war for human freedom.

This would not be the neat, short, “limited” war both sides had envisioned. First, he describes how the war slowly but steadily got out of control. In Terrible Swift Sword, Bruce Catton tells the story of the Civil War as never before-of two turning points which changed the scope and meaning of the war. Description: The second episode in this award-winning trilogy impressively shows how the Union and Confederacy, slowly and inexorably, reconciled themselves to an all-out war-an epic struggle for freedom.

Terrible Swift Sword by Bruce Catton