Thanks, Scott. I will bring the books with me so you can read them. I, btw, am not much of a collector: I generally give books away after I read them (except for a special few that I think I may re-read). As a Carolina man married to a Tennessee lass, you may not be pleased that one of my favorites is a biography of Wm. Tecumseh Sherman. Actually, Sherman and Harry Truman are two of my favorite figures in American history, men whose lives were notably inconspicuous until they had gotten older.
I've always found "Cump" Sherman fascinating. Few military men had the cojones to pull off the military maneuvers he did in his campaign through Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina. Until his campaign it was supposed that such a campaign without standard supply lines was unsustainable.
The US Civil War was one of many firsts, the most notable being, in my opinion, the concept of "Total War" as coined by Sherman and Grant, who were purportedly good friends. If not for these gents the war might have lasted MUCH longer.
