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From the best-selling author of Gettysburg, a multilayered group biography of the commanders who led the Military of the Potomac. The high order of the Military of the Potomac was a changeable, often dysfunctional music group of brothers, going right through the fires of warfare under seven commanding generals in 3 years, until Grant arrived east in 1864. The men in charge all too frequently appeared to be fighting up against the administration in Washington instead of for it, more and more cast as political pawns facing down a vindictive congressional Committee on the Do of the Conflict. Leader Lincoln oversaw, argued with, and lastly tamed his unruly team of generals as the eastern army was stabilized by an unsung encouraging ensemble of corps, division, and brigade generals. With characteristic style and understanding, Stephen Sears brings these courageous, identified officers, who rose through the ranks and led from the front, to life.
