Campaigning with Grant (Annotated)

If you want to understand Grant's campaigns, read his memoir. If you want to understand Grant the man, read this masterful first-hand account of Horace Porter's time on Grant's staff during the American Civil War.

There is no more intimate and appealing portrait of the great general than that drawn by Porter. A keen observer of all around him and a great admirer of Grant to his dying day, Porter brings Grant to life in struggle and victory.

Here we get fully dimensional anecdotes of Grant's h...