Ebook: 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.