Grant's Victory
Title | Grant's Victory PDF eBook |
Author | Bruce L. Brager |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 179 |
Release | 2020-04-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0811769119 |
Two of the great themes of the Civil War are how Lincoln found his war-winning general in Ulysses Grant and how Grant finally defeated Lee. Grant’s Victory intertwines these two threads in a grand narrative that shows how Grant made the difference in the war. At Eastern theater battlefields from Bull Run to Gettysburg, Union commanders—whom Lincoln replaced after virtually every major battle—had struggled to best Lee, either suffering embarrassing defeat or failing to follow up success. Meanwhile, in the West, Grant had been refining his art of war at places like Fort Donelson, Shiloh, Vicksburg, and Chattanooga, and in early 1864, Lincoln made him general-in-chief. Arriving in the East almost deus ex machina, and immediately recognizing what his predecessors never could, Grant pressed Lee in nearly continuous battle for the next eleven months—a series of battles and sieges that ended at Appomattox.
Grant's Final Victory
Title | Grant's Final Victory PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Bracelen Flood |
Publisher | Da Capo Press, Incorporated |
Pages | 322 |
Release | 2011-10-11 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0306820285 |
In a masterful narrative, a prominent historian brings to life the last year of General Grant's life--a tragic, poignant, and inspiring story.
Grants Victory
Title | Grants Victory PDF eBook |
Author | Bruce L. BRAGER |
Publisher | |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 2020-04 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780811739191 |
Two of the great themes of the Civil War are how Lincoln found his war-winning general in Ulysses Grant and how Grant finally defeated Lee. Grant's Victory intertwines these two threads in a grand narrative that shows how Grant made the difference in the war. At Eastern theater battlefields from Bull Run to Gettysburg, Union commanders--whom Lincoln replaced after virtually every major battle--had struggled to best Lee, either suffering embarrassing defeat or failing to follow up success. Meanwhile, in the West, Grant had been refining his art of war at places like Fort Donelson, Shiloh, Vicksburg, and Chattanooga, and in early 1864, Lincoln made him general-in-chief. Arriving in the East almost deus ex machina, and immediately recognizing what his predecessors never could, Grant pressed Lee in nearly continuous battle for the next eleven months--a series of battles and sieges that ended at Appomattox.
Grant vs. Lee
Title | Grant vs. Lee PDF eBook |
Author | Chris Mackowski |
Publisher | Savas Beatie |
Pages | 337 |
Release | 2022-04-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1954547129 |
“Engaging, entertaining, educational, and eclectic, this collection of brief essays . . . provides hope for the future of accessible Civil War history.” —A. Wilson Greene, author of A Campaign of Giants: The Battle for Petersburg With the election looming in the fall, President Abraham Lincoln needed to break the deadlock. To do so, he promoted Ulysses S. Grant—the man who’d strung together victory after victory in the Western Theater, including the capture of two entire Confederate armies. The unassuming “dust-covered man” was now in command of all the Union armies, and he came east to lead them. The unlucky soldiers of George G. Meade’s Army of the Potomac had developed a grudging respect for their Southern adversary and assumed a wait-and-see attitude: “Grant,” they reasoned, “has never met Bobby Lee yet.” By the spring of 1864, Robert E. Lee, commander of the Army of Northern Virginia, had come to embody the Confederate cause. Grant knew as much and decided to take the field with the Potomac army. He ordered his subordinates to forgo efforts to capture Richmond in favor of annihilating Lee’s command. Grant’s directive to Meade was straightforward: “Where Lee goes, there you will go also.” Lee and Grant would come to symbolize the armies they led when the spring 1864 campaign began in northern Virginia in the Wilderness on May 5. What followed was a desperate. bloody death match that ran through the long siege of Richmond and Petersburg before finally ending at Appomattox Court House eleven months later—but at what cost along the way? This book recounts some of the most famous episodes and compelling human dramas from the marquee matchup of the Civil War. These expanded and revised essays also commemorate a decade of Emerging Civil War, a “best of” collection on the Overland Campaign, the siege of Petersburg, and the Confederate surrender at Appomattox.
The Web of Victory
Title | The Web of Victory PDF eBook |
Author | Earl Schenk Miers |
Publisher | |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | |
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Ulysses S. Grant's Final Victory
Title | Ulysses S. Grant's Final Victory PDF eBook |
Author | James M. McPherson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 7 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | United States |
ISBN |
Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant ...
Title | Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant ... PDF eBook |
Author | Ulysses Simpson Grant |
Publisher | New York, C. L. Webster & Company |
Pages | 606 |
Release | 1885 |
Genre | Generals |
ISBN |
Faced with failing health and financial ruin, the Civil War's greatest general and former president wrote his personal memoirs to secure his family's future - and won himself a unique place in American letters. Devoted almost entirely to his life as a soldier, Grant's Memoirs traces the trajectory of his extraordinary career - from West Point cadet to general-in-chief of all Union armies. For their directness and clarity, his writings on war are without rival in American literature, and his autobiography deserves a place among the very best in the genre.