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

By Kenneth P. Williams

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803297939
• ISBN13: 9780803297937
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr
• Length: 585 Pages
• Weight: 5.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.3" x 1.3" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

Very Interesting, Very Detailed

I think the book is better than the other review gave it credit for. I will agree that he does go out of his way to discredit Grant's drinking. But on the whole these are pretty informative books not as dry as the other review says they are. The two new editions by the University of Nebraska Press have great introductions by Grimsley and Simpson. Simpson gives more credit to Williams than the review here gives. These introductions are excellent. But the volumes are not always about Grant. The Kentucky Invasion is covered in the second volume as is the battle of Murfreesboro. I recommend these books to anyone interested in Grant and/or the Western Theater of the Civil War.