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Title: Three Years With Grant: As Recalled by War Correspondent Sylvanus Cadwallader by Sylvanus Cadwallader, Benjamin P. Thomas, Brooks D. Simpson ISBN: 0-8032-6369-4 Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr Pub. Date: November, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: good reading
Comment: If you are familiar with Grant`s campaigns then youll like this book . It gives us an insiders view of the battles of Vicksburg, Chattanoga,the Wilderness,and Appomattox.Because of his unique situation at Grant`s Headquarters where he was accepted as one of the staff,we get the inside take on Grant`s drunkedness on Warren`s removal from command and any number of things that happened during Grant`s campaigns.
Rating: 5
Summary: good book
Comment: If you are familiar with the campaigns of General Grant then you will find this book worthwile.Cadwallader has a front row seat at Vicksburg, Chattanoga,the Wilderness,and Appomattox. He is a reporter therefore a professional writer which helps. His book is filled with inside information on all the principle figureheads of the time. Also it is the only book I ever read that gives us the reader the inside true story on the rumours of General Grants drinking problem.
Rating: 5
Summary: Intimate portrait of General Grant
Comment: This is a controversial book because of one reason: the author maintains he witnessed Grant getting drunk during the Vicksburg campaign in 1863. Why this is particularly contentious with Grant supporters is a trifle mystifying, but Grant fans still vociferously contend the author "embellished" or "lied" about the drinking binge. Never mind that two other people who were also with Grant corroborate the drinking story. Never mind that his chief of staff specifically wrote about the binging in a private letter.
Aside from this drinking anecdote, the book is a warm, rich portrayal of General Grant from a man with a discerning eye. Cadwallader relates many small incidents of Grant's everyday life as a man and as a general that are fascinating and not to be found in other first-person narratives.
Cadwallader truly loved Grant and his book shows his regard and his profound attachment to him. It's a pity that so many people denigrate such a fine book simply because they feel the author's memory was fallible or because they refuse to see Grant as a multi-facted man. A man with his share of human frailties and weaknesses, but still a towering individual: a great general and a man of uncommon moral fiber and decency. If you know little about Grant, this is a good place to begin a journey in seeking to know him as a man and as a great soldier who saved the union.
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Title: Campaigning With Grant by Horace Porter ISBN: 0914427709 Publisher: William s Konecky Assoc Pub. Date: 15 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.98 |
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Title: Grant and Lee: A Study in Personality and Generalship by J. F. C. Fuller ISBN: 0253202884 Publisher: Indiana University Press Pub. Date: September, 1982 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Generalship of Ulysses S. Grant by J. F. C. Fuller ISBN: 0306804506 Publisher: DaCapo Press Pub. Date: October, 1991 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: The Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant (Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant) by John Simon, Julia Dent Grant ISBN: 0809314436 Publisher: Southern Illinois Univ Pr (Trd) Pub. Date: February, 1988 List Price(USD): $22.50 |
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Title: Gettysburg by Stephen W. Sears ISBN: 0395867614 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 24 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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