The Battle of Monroe's Crossroads: and the Civil War’s Final Campaign (Eric J. Wittenberg - CWC) medal Mieczkowski

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Starting in the early 1840s

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Grant intended to end the campaign quickly by assault

even historians sympathetic to Lincoln have found it necessary to apologize for his administration’s record on civil liberties during the Civil War

The Battle of Monroe's Crossroads: and the Civil War’s Final Campaign (Eric J. Wittenberg - CWC) medal MieczkowskiBattle of Monroe's Crossroads: and the Civil War's Final Campaign by Eric J. Wittenberg The Battle of Monroe's Crossroads, March 10, 1865, was one of most important but least known engagements of William T. Sherman's Carolinas Campaign. Now in paperback, here is the only book length account of this combat. As Sherman's infantry crossed into North Carolina, Maj. Gen. Judson Kilpatrick's veteran Federal cavalry division fanned out in front, screening