DOC The Challenge of Pluralism: Church and State in Five Democracies by Stephen V. Monsma; J. Christophen Soper in History

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The Sword of Lincoln is the first authoritative single-volume history of the Army of the Potomac in many years. From Bull Run to Gettysburg to Appomattox; the Army of the Potomac repeatedly fought -- and eventually defeated -- Robert E. Lee and his Army of Northern Virginia. Jeffry D. Wert; one of our finest Civil War historians; brings to life the battles; the generals; and the common soldiers who fought for the Union and ultimately prevailed. The Army of the Potomac endured a string of losses under a succession of flawed commanders -- McClellan; Burnside; and Hooker -- until at Gettysburg it won a decisive battle under a new commander; General George Meade. Within a year the Army of the Potomac would come under the overall leadership of the Union's new general-in-chief; Ulysses S. Grant. Under Grant the army would finally trap and defeat Lee and his forces. Wert's history draws on letters and diaries; some previously unpublished; to show us what army life was like. Throughout the book Wert shows how Lincoln carefully monitored the operations of the Army of the Potomac; learning as the war progressed; until he found in Grant the commander he'd long sought. Perceptive in its analysis and compellingly written; The Sword of Lincoln is the finest modern account of the army that was central to the Civil War.