Grant Takes Command

The Pulitzer Prize–winning historian's New York Times–bestselling biography of Ulysses S. Grant and his leadership during the Civil War.

"Lively and absorbing." —The New York Times Book Review

This conclusion to Bruce Catton's acclaimed history of General Grant begins in the summer of 1863. After Grant's bold and decisive triumph over the Confederate Army at Vicksburg, President Lincoln promoted him to the head of the Army of the Potomac. The newly named general was virtually unknown to the...