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The Training Ground (Nonfiction)

by | Aug 1, 2008 | Western Books

Martin Dugard, Little, Brown & Co., $29.99, Hardcover.
Although the subtitle of Martin Dugard’s excellent book is “Grant, Lee, Sherman and Davis in the Mexican War, 1846-48” and the author protests that his volume is not a history of the Mexican War, it is actually a very good survey of the two major campaigns of that war and how it trained soldiers for the Civil War. The real heroes of the Mexican War were Gens.


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