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Article: Civil War forged bond between generals.
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- The Columbus Dispatch (Columbus, OH)
- Article date:
- May 3, 2006
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Byline: Robert Ruth
May 3--In 1981, Charles Bracelen Flood paid tribute to Robert E. Lee in Lee: The Last Years, which chronicles the last five years of the Confederate general's life.
A quarter of a century later, Flood gives Ulysses S. Grant his due along with another Union general, William T. Sherman, in Grant and Sherman: The Friendship That Won the Civil War.
"It was a close friendship, beyond being a military partnership," Flood said in an interview last week.
Q: Both Sherman and Grant were born in Ohio, but they really didn't meet until the Civil War, right?
A: They knew each other by sight from West Point. Sherman was ...