Campaigning with Grant (Annotated) - Softcover

Porter, Horace

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1519046596 ISBN 13: 9781519046598

Publisher: Independently published, 2016

Synopsis

Campaigning with Grant offers the most intimate, first‑hand portrait of Ulysses S. Grant in the field, written by the gifted observer who served at his side, Horace Porter.

This classic Civil War memoir puts you inside Grant’s headquarters during the war’s decisive campaigns—seeing his calm under pressure, his flashes of anger, his dry humor, and his unshakable resolve as his staff saw them day after day. Porter records vivid, fully dimensional anecdotes of Grant discussing strategy, cracking wry jokes, reacting to setbacks, and quietly shaping Union victory.

Along the way, Porter also sketches unforgettable scenes with the era’s other great commanders—William Tecumseh Sherman, Philip H. Sheridan, George G. Meade, George H. Thomas, and more—capturing how they planned operations, argued, cooperated, and clashed. The result is both a human portrait of Grant and a front‑row seat to the high command of the Union Army.

Readers of Civil War history, military biography, leadership studies, and Grant enthusiasts will find Campaigning with Grant indispensable: a rich primary source, a compelling narrative, and one of the most important classics of American Civil War literature—well worth reading, and rereading, for anyone who wants to understand who Grant really was.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1519046596
• ISBN 13: 9781519046598
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 409