Comrades in arms; A new book describes the pivotal partnership between Civil War Union generals Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman that led to a Northern victory.

Concord Monitor | October 23, 2005| | Copyright

In the hands of the right author, some moments in American history should cause a reader to tremble in joy and sadness. For me, such an event occurred May 23-24, 1865, when the soldiers of the vast, victorious Union armies paraded before their fellow countrymen one last time before fading into civilian life.

This march is the climactic scene in Grant and Sherman, Charles Bracelen Flood's new book about the parallel lives and professional friendship of the North's two greatest generals. His account of it captures both the glory and the sorrow of comrades parting after a long ordeal.

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