Grant's Victory (eBook)

How Ulysses S. Grant Won the Civil War

Bruce L. Brager (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
240 Seiten
Globe Pequot (Verlag)
978-0-8117-6911-2 (ISBN)

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Two of the great themes of the Civil War are how Lincoln found his war-winning general in Ulysses Grant and how Grant finally defeated Lee. Grant's Victory intertwines these two threads in a grand narrative that shows how Grant made the difference in the war. At Eastern theater battlefields from Bull Run to Gettysburg, Union commanderswhom Lincoln replaced after virtually every major battlehad struggled to best Lee, either suffering embarrassing defeat or failing to follow up success. Meanwhile, in the West, Grant had been refining his art of war at places like Fort Donelson, Shiloh, Vicksburg, and Chattanooga, and in early 1864, Lincoln made him general-in-chief. Arriving in the East almost deus ex machina, and immediately recognizing what his predecessors never could, Grant pressed Lee in nearly continuous battle for the next eleven monthsa series of battles and sieges that ended at Appomattox.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.4.2020
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Schlagworte: Abraham Lincoln • Civil War • Civil War winner • Robert E. Lee • Ulysses S. Grant • Union general • union victory
• ISBN-10: 0-8117-6911-9 / 0811769119
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8117-6911-2 / 9780811769112