The Last Words: The Farewell Addresses of Union and Confederate Commanders to Their Men at the End of the War Between the States
Language: English
Published by Charleston Athenaeum Press, 2022
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- Title
- The Last Words: The Farewell Addresses of Union and Confederate Commanders to Their Men at the End of the War Between the States
- Author
- Bradley, Michael R.
- Publisher
- Charleston Athenaeum Press
- Publication year
- 2022
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 098536324X
- ISBN 13
- 9780985363246
At the very end of the War Between the States, seventeen commanders delivered farewell addresses to the men they had led through four years of hell during which 750,000 died and over a million were maimed. The seventeen include Lee, Grant, Sherman, Forrest, Meade, Mosby, Trowbridge (U.S. Colored Troops), Johnston, Wheeler and Hoke.
Those eight Confederate and nine Union addresses are important documents in American history because they show clearly what each side was fighting for.
Historian Michael R. Bradley has given us exciting narrative history researched in minute detail on the seventeen commanders, their units, battles and last words to their men. If you love history, it does not get better than this.
--------- from the Prologue by Gene Kizer, Jr.
The Prologue alone is worth the cost of the book, as is the Introduction, in which Dr. Bradley conclusively punctures the Single Cause Myth. Confederate and Union commanders speak from their hearts after four years of bloody struggle. Bradley’s mini-biographies, of each commander, add a huge amount of depth to the work. The Last Words is worthy of a historian of the first rank, which Dr. Bradley clearly is. It should be on the bookshelf of every serious student of the Civil War. I give it my highest recommendation without qualification or reservation.
--------- Dr. Samuel W. Mitcham, Jr., author of The Encyclopedia of Confederate Generals: The Definitive Guide to the 426 Leaders of the South's War Effort, and over 40 other books including Bust Hell Wide Open: The Life of Nathan Bedford Forrest.
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About the Author
Gene Kizer, Jr. is an author and the founder of Charleston Athenaeum Press. He graduated magna cum laude from the College of Charleston (SC) in 2000 at middle age with History Departmental Honors, the Rebecca Motte American History Award, and the highest award for the History Department, the Outstanding Student Award.He is author of Slavery Was Not the Cause of the War Between the States, The Irrefutable Argument., 360 pages, 218 footnotes, 207 sources in the bibliography; The Elements of Academic Success, How to Graduate Magna Cum Laude from College (or how to just graduate, PERIOD!), 364 pages; and Charleston, SC Short Stories, Book One, an eBook on Amazon.He is compiler and wrote the Introduction for Charles W. Ramsdell, Dean of Southern Historians, Volume One: His Best Work, 462 pages.He wrote the 47 page Prologue to Michael R. Bradley's The Last Words, The Farewell Addresses of Union and Confederate Commanders to Their Men at the End of the War Between the States.He lives on James Island in Charleston where he is also broker-in-charge of Charleston Saltwater Realty.
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