Grant Rises in the West: From Iuka to Vicksburg, 1862-1863

By Kenneth P. Williams

Book Overview

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. 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803297947
• ISBN13: 9780803297944
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr
• Length: 616 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.3" x 1.3" x 5.5"