The first and best biography of James H. Wilson, who won the admiration of Grant by reinvigorating the Union cavalry, and who led a legendary campaign into Alabama that crushed Confederate forces and signaled the end of the Civil War.
Born in Shawneetown, Illinois in time to be newly graduated from West Point when the Civil War started, James H. Wilson became a brigadier general by the age of twenty-six. Fueled by boundless ambition and the desire to serve his country, he reorganized the Union cavalry in time...