ASIN: B00XDC6WFO
Publisher: Charles River Editors
Pages: 52
*Includes pictures*Includes accounts of the campaign written by generals on both sides*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading*Includes a table of contents“No terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender.” – Ulysses S. Grant at Fort Donelson"It was not possible for brave men to endure more." – General Lew WallaceWhile the Lincoln Administration and most Northerners were preoccupied with trying to capture Richmond in the summer of 1861, it would be the little known Ulysses S. Grant who delivered the Union’s first major victories, over a thousand miles away from Washington. Grant’s new commission led to his command of the District of Southeast Missouri, headquartered at Cairo, after he was appointed by “The Pathfinder”, John C. Fremont, a national celebrity who had run for President in 1856. Fremont was one of many political generals that Lincoln was ...
