Synopsis
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.
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Published in 1952 and 1956, respectively, these trace this Civil War-rior's rise from colonel in the Illinois volunteers to his defeat of the Confederacy. A fine portrait of Grant.
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