Steel and Honor

Follow two roommates and best friends as they graduate from West Point in 1848. James and Nathaniel travel difffent, but similar path as they first enter a Federal Army trying to modernize while cracking apart. The Civil War puts them on opposite sides. Their journey continues to follow their paths as staff officers observing the new technologies impact on the Civil War. Book two takes them through the opening of the war to the bloodiest day of the Civil War, Antietam. Sty with them as the five book series continues through 1866. Enjoy and learn.

Cadets to Captains: : 1848-1860

From the series: Steel and Honor

They were roommates at West Point, forged as cadets in the same gray ranks and bound by the same oath to the United States Army. As the Army they loved began to fracture, their bond only grew stronger.

From the Hudson Highlands to the proving grounds of Texas and the coastal fortresses of the South, James Tanner and Nathaniel McAllister rise...

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ANTIETAM: From Secession to the Bloodiest Day

From the series: Steel and Honor

Anyone who has walked the fields of Antietam confronts the same question long after the guns fall silent:

How did disciplined, educated officers continue sending their men into such devastation?

“Antietam: From Secession to the Bloodiest Day” traces the long road from political fracture to the bloodiest single day in American history. As secession...

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