Grant Takes Command

Cover Page; Title Page; Dedication; Contents; List of Maps; Foreword; 1. Political Innocent; 2. The Road to Chattanooga; 3. I Have Never Felt Such Restlessness Before; 4. The Miracle on Missionary Ridge; 5. The Enemy Have Not Got Army Enough; 6. The High Place; 7. Continue to Be Yourself; 8. Campaign Plans and Politics; 9. The Fault Is Not with You; 10. In the Wilderness; 11. If It Takes All Summer; 12. Beyond the Bloody Angle; 13. Roll On, Like a Wave; 14. On the Banks of the James; 15. A Question of Time; 16. So Fair an Opportunity; 17. Roughshod or On Tiptoe; 18. The Hundred-Gun Salutes.;A thrilling account of the final years of the War Between the States and the great general who led the Union to victory. This conclusion of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Bruce Catton's acclaimed Civil War history of General Ulysses S. Grant begins in the summer of 1863. After Grant's bold and decisive triumph over the Confederate Army at Vicksburg-a victory that wrested control of the Mississippi River from Southern hands-President Abraham Lincoln promoted Grant to the head of the Army of the Potomac. The newly named general was virtually unknown to the nation and to the Union's military high command, but he proved himself in the brutal closing year and a half of the War Between the States. Grant's strategic brilliance and unshakeable tenacity crushed the Confederacy in the battles of the Overland Campaign in Virginia and the Siege of Petersburg. In the spring of 1865, Grant finally forced Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House, thus ending the bloodiest conflict on American soil. Although tragedy struck only days later when Lincoln-whom Grant called "incontestably the greatest man I have ever known"--Was assassinated, Grant's military triumphs would ensure that the president's principles of unity and freedom would endure. In Grant Takes Command, Catton offers readers an in-depth portrait of an extraordinary warrior and unparalleled military strategist whose brilliant battlefield leadership saved an endangered Union. A thrilling account of the final years of the War Between the States and the great general who led the Union to victory This conclusion of Pulitzer Prize{u2013}winning author Bruce Catton{u2019}s acclaimed Civil War history of General Ulysses S. Grant begins in the summer of 1863. After Grant{u2019}s bold and decisive triumph over the Confederate Army at Vicksburg{u2014}a victory that wrested control of the Mississippi River from Southern hands{u2014}President Abraham Lincoln promoted Grant to the head of the Army of the Potomac. The newly named general was virtually unknown to the nation and to the Union{u2019}s military high command, but he proved himself in the brutal closing year and a half of the War Between the States. Grant{u2019}s strategic brilliance and unshakeable tenacity crushed the Confederacy in the battles of the Overland Campaign in Virginia and the Siege of Petersburg. In the spring of 1865, Grant finally forced Robert E. Lee{u2019}s surrender at Appomattox Court House, thus ending the bloodiest conflict on American soil. Although tragedy struck only days later when Lincoln{u2014}whom Grant called ?incontestably the greatest man I have ever known????????was assassinated, Grant{u2019}s military triumphs would ensure that the president{u2019}s principles of unity and freedom would endure. In Grant Takes Command, Catton offers readers an in-depth portrait of an extraordinary warrior and unparalleled military strategist whose brilliant battlefield leadership saved an endangered Union The Pulitzer Prize–winning historian’s “lively and absorbing” biography of Ulysses S. Grant and his leadership during the Civil War (The New York Times Book Review). This conclusion to Bruce Catton’s acclaimed history of General Grant begins in the summer of 1863. After Grant’s bold and decisive triumph over the Confederate Army at Vicksburg, President Lincoln promoted him to the head of the Army of the Potomac. The newly named general was virtually unknown to the Union’s military high command, but he proved himself in the brutal closing year and a half of the War Between the States. Grant’s strategic brilliance and unshakeable tenacity crushed the Confederacy in the battles of the Overland Campaign in Virginia and the Siege of Petersburg. In the spring of 1865, Grant finally forced Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox Court House, thus ending the bloodiest conflict on American soil. Although tragedy struck only days later when Lincoln—whom Grant called “incontestably the greatest man I have ever known”—was assassinated, Grant’s military triumphs would ensure that the president’s principles of unity and freedom would endure. In Grant Takes Command, Catton offers readers an in-depth portrait of an extraordinary warrior and unparalleled military strategist whose brilliant battlefield leadership saved an endangered Union. Cover Page Title Page Dedication Contents List of Maps Foreword 1. Political Innocent 2. The Road to Chattanooga 3. I Have Never Felt Such Restlessness Before 4. The Miracle on Missionary Ridge 5. The Enemy Have Not Got Army Enough 6. The High Place 7. Continue to Be Yourself 8. Campaign Plans and Politics 9. The Fault Is Not with You 10. In the Wilderness 11. If It Takes All Summer 12. Beyond the Bloody Angle 13. Roll On, Like a Wave 14. On the Banks of the James 15. A Question of Time 16. So Fair an Opportunity 17. Roughshod or On Tiptoe 18. The Hundred-Gun Salutes. 19. I Will Work This Thing Out Yet20. Much Is Now Expected 21. A Letter from General Lee 22. I Feel Now Like Ending the Matter 23. Our Countrymen Again 24. Stranger in a Strange Land Notes Bibliography Acknowledgments Index About the Author Copyright Page. OFFICIALLY, John A. Rawlins went to Washington to carry dispatches telling how Vicksburg had been won.