@article{1380558, recid = {1380558}, author = {Carhart, Tom,}, title = {Sacred ties : from West Point brothers to battlefield rivals : a true story of the Civil War /}, pages = {373 pages ;}, abstract = {This is the Civil War as seen through the eyes of six young West Point graduates: George Armstrong Custer, Stephen Dodson Ramsuer, Henry Algernon du Pont, John Pelham, Thomas Lafayette Rosser, and Wesley Merritt. At the military academy they forged bonds stronger than brotherhood, but a few short years later had to choose between blue and gray, even facing each other on opposite sides of battlefields.}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1380558}, }