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 temperamental Irishman who’d proven himself just the kind of scrapper Grant loved.   The valley