Joseph E, Johnston: A Civil War Biography

But Johnston was an enigmatic man. His battlefield victories were never decisive. He failed to save Confederate forces under siege by Grant at Vicksburg, and he retreated into Georgia in the face of Sherman's march. His intense feud with Jefferson Davis ensured the collapse of the Confederacy's western campaign in 1864 and made Johnston the focus of a political schism within the government.

Now in this rousing narrative of Johnston's dramatic career, Craig L. Symonds gives us the first rounded portrait of the general as a public and private man.


Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 06/17/1994
ISBN: 9780393311303
Pages: 464
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.26h x 6.14w x 1.26d