General Grant and the Verdict of History: Memoir, Memory, and the Civil War (Frank P. Varney - UA) Section-Civil War Pets Historian and lifelong hiker Mills

Historian and lifelong hiker Mills Kelly tells the story of a 300-mile section of the Appalachian Trail that is all but forgotten by hikers

It tells the story of his military successes and the important results that led to the Union victory in the Civil War: winning the first major campaign of the war in West Virginia in 1861

the record of what occurred there is mostly limited to the letters and diaries of his subordinates

and the start of the tentative peace in 1865

retired journalist Ben McNitt tells the story of how slavery shaped American politics—and indeed the American story—from the Founding until the Civil War

General Grant and the Verdict of History: Memoir, Memory, and the Civil War (Frank P. Varney - UA) Section-Civil War Pets Historian and lifelong hiker Millsby Frank P. Varney General Ulysses S. Grant is best remembered today as a war winning general, and he certainly deserves credit for his efforts on behalf of the Union. But has he received too much credit at the expense of other men? Have others who fought the war with him suffered unfairly at his hands? General Grant and the Verdict of History: Memoir, Memory, and the Civil War explores these issues. Professor Frank P. Varney examines Grants