Grant Rises in the West: The First Year, 1861-1862 - Softcover

Williams, Kenneth P.

9780803297937: Grant Rises in the West: The First Year, 1861-1862

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0803297939 ISBN 13: 9780803297937

Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr, 1997

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.

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About the Author:

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.

Review:

"Grant 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 (New York Times Book Review)

“[Williams] demonstrates a remarkable ability to make the most confused battle clear.”—Journal of American History (Journal of American History)

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