Grant Rises in the West: The first year, 1861-1862Grant Rises in the West "holds the reader . . . [Williams's] own military career . . . has given him knowledge tempered with charity and understanding for human weakness in the stress of battle".-New York Times Book Review. "[Williams] demonstrates a remarkable ability to make the most confused battle clear".-Journal of American History. Ulysses S. Grant was a store clerk in Galena, Illinois, in April 1861 when he answered President Lincoln's call to fight for the Union. In The First Year, 1861-1862, Grant begins as a colonel of Illinois volunteers and moves into prominence after strategically important battles at Belmont, Forts Henry and Donelson, and Shiloh. Kenneth P. Williams (1887-1958) taught in the Department of Mathematics at Indiana University, Blomington. Mark Grimsley is a professor of history at Ohio State University and the author of The Hard Hand of War: Union Military Policy toward Southern Civilians, 1861-1865. |
Contents
Point Pleasant to Galena | 1 |
And Captain Grant | 10 |
Ten Weeks of Grant and Frémont | 42 |
Belmont | 75 |
Telegrams Bring an Order | 178 |
Gunboats Take a Fort | 199 |
Halleck Gets the West | 283 |
The Armies Gather | 310 |
Shiloh | 345 |
Spring Changes into Sultry Summer | 396 |
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Grant Rises in the West: The first year, 1861-1862 Kenneth Powers Williams No preview available - 1997 |
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