Highlights Include: General William Tecumseh Sherman on his infamous march through GeorgiaGeneral George B. McClellan on the battle of Antietam and the legendary lost order that should have tipped him off to Lee's plansGeneral George Armstrong Custer's experience of going straight from studying at W[...]

A major new biography of the Civil War general and American president, by the author of the New York Times bestseller, A. Lincoln. The dramatic story of one of America's greatest and most misunderstood military leaders and presidents, this is a major new interpretation of Ulysses S. Grant. Based on [...]

Ulysses S. Grant was the first officer since George Washington to become a four-star general in the United States Army, and the only president in nearly a century - between Andrew Jackson in 1929 and Woodrow Wilson in 1913 - to serve eight consecutive years in the White House. Revered for his skill [...]

In this new biography of General Ulysses S. Grant, acclaimed Civil War historian, Edward G. Longacre, examines Grant's early life and his military career for insights into his great battlefield successes as well as his personal misfortunes. Longacre concentrates on Grant's boyhood and early married [...]

Ulysses S. Grant certainly does not have the typical war hero "back story." Although a graduate of West Point, he never wanted to be a soldier and was terrified when he first saw battle. However, during the Civil War, after many Northern generals failed to deliver decisive victories, U.S. Grant rose[...]

As controversial in politics as he was in the military, Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885) was an embattled president, enormously popular with the American people, yet the target of unrelenting censure by political enemies. For the first time in almost a century, this book by the distinguished historian C[...]

Many modern historians have painted Ulysses S. Grant as a butcher, a drunk, and a failure as president. Others have argued the exact opposite and portray him with saintlike levels of ethic and intellect.In "Ulysses S. Grant: Triumph over Adversity 1822a 1865," historian Brooks D. Simpson takes neith[...]

The underappreciated presidency of the military man who won the Civil War and then had to win the peace as well
As a general, Ulysses S. Grant is routinely described in glowing terms-the man who turned the tide of the Civil War, who accepted Lee's surrender at Appomattox, and who had the stomach[...]

General Dodge knew these great Americans well and in many capacities, and his recollections are vivid, important reading. "My personal recollections of President Lincoln and Generals Grant and Sherman, all three of whom, up to the time they died, showed their personal friendship to me in many ways a[...]

Ulysses S. Grant is often accused of being a cold--hearted butcher of his troops. In Ulysses S. Grant: A Victor, Not a Butcher, historian Edward H. Bonekemper III proves that Grant's casualty rates actually compared favorably with those of other Civil War generals. His perseverance, decisiveness, mo[...]