My rating: 5 of 5 stars
McPherson is excellent at capturing the drama of the war, the execution of the general's strategies, the personalities that animate the history, as well as the political and moral issues at stake. It is truly a tour de force.
His basic theses is that both sides were crying freedom. The South wanted freedom from Northern tyranny, but they were also fighting to maintain slavery. The North sought to preserve the union and the abolitionist cause came increasingly to the fore as Lincoln's views progressed. The slaves cry for freedom was the most profound.
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