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General Grant Defended in Raleigh
RALEIGH – Edward Bonekemper has a passion for Civil War history. After he retired from a successful legal career, it led to his first publication, How Robert E. Lee Lost the Civil War. It chronicled tactical errors that led to the South being defeated by the North. A natural follow-up is his most recent book, A Victor, Not a Butcher: Ulysses S. Grant’s Overlooked Military Genius. The book — about which Bonekemper spoke at a recent JLF Headliner luncheon in Raleigh — takes a different approach to history, suggesting that Grant was a great military commander and not a butcher, as he has often been described.