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The Last Words, The Farewell Addresses of Union and Confederate Commanders to Their Men at the End of the War Between the States
The Last Words, The Farewell Addresses of Union and Confederate Commanders to Their Men at the End of the War Between the States
The Last Words, The Farewell Addresses of Union and Confederate Commanders to Their Men at the End of the War Between the States
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At the very end of the War Between the States, seventeen commanders delivered farewell addresses to the men they had led through four years of hell during which 750,000 died and over a million were maimed. The seventeen include General Robert E. Lee, General Ulysses S. Grant, Major General William T. Sherman, Lieutenant-General Nathan Bedford Fo

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Release dateSep 2, 2022
ISBN9780985363284
The Last Words, The Farewell Addresses of Union and Confederate Commanders to Their Men at the End of the War Between the States
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Michael R Bradley

Michael R. Bradley is a native of the Tennessee-Alabama state line region near Fayetteville, TN. He earned a B.A. from Samford University, a Master of Divinity at New Orleans Seminary, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University. For thirty-six years, Dr. Bradley taught United States History at Motlow College near Tullahoma, Tennessee. He has been pastor of two Presbyterian churches in Middle Tennessee and interim Pastor of two others. Dr. Bradley is the author of several books on the War Between the States in Tennessee and Nathan Bedford Forrest, but he has written on topics ranging from the Revolutionary War to death in the Great Smoky Mountains. His books include: They Rode with Forrest; Tullahoma: The 1863 Campaign for the Control of Middle Tennessee; With Blood and Fire: Life Behind Union Lines in Middle Tennessee, 1863-65; Nathan Bedford Forrest's Escort & Staff in War and Peace; It Happened in the Revolutionary War; It Happened in the Civil War: Remarkable Events That Shaped History; Myths and Mysteries of the Civil War; Forrest's Fighting Preacher, David Campbell Kelley of Tennessee; The Raiding Winter; Civil War Myths and Legends: The True Stories Behind History's Mysteries; Death in the Great Smoky Mountains, and others along with a lifetime of articles and talks. In 1994 he was awarded the Jefferson Davis Medal in Southern History. In 2006 he was elected commander of the Tennessee Division SCV and is a Life Member. He was appointed by Gov. Phil Bredesen to Tennessee's Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission. Dr. Bradley is married with two adult children, two grandsons and one granddaughter. He lives with his wife, Martha, in Tullahoma.

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