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Historical person
Albert Sidney Johnston is represented in the linked historical fiction through military command and battlefield decision-making, court politics and dynastic power, and political ambition and government. These works approach the figure through the surrounding events, relationships and political conflicts rather than through a standalone biography.
In Jeff Shaara’s A Blaze of Glory, Albert Sidney Johnston gathers an army at Corinth and plans to strike Ulysses S. Grant near Pittsburg Landing before Don Carlos Buell can reinforce him.
Series
The Civil War in the West is Jeff Shaara’s four-volume sequence about campaigns beyond the more familiar eastern battlefields. It begins with A Blaze of Glory at Shiloh and continues through Vicksburg, Chattanooga, Atlanta and Sherman’s final campaigns across Georgia and the Carolinas. The books follow Ulysses S.…
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