Table of Contents
Preface xi
Prologue Death Stared Us All in the Face 1
Chapter 1 My Father Named Me William Tecumseh 20
Chapter 2 I Was Notified to Prepare for West Point 32
Chapter 3 In the Service of My Country 46
Chapter 4 Sand and Sun, Seminoles and Spaniards 63
Chapter 5 Military Camaraderie, Southern Aristocracy, Prospective Matrimony 84
Chapter 6 And Then There Was A War On 101
Chapter 7 Deprived of Military Glory 123
Chapter 8 California Again-a Brand-New Game 148
Chapter 9 Golden State Banker 173
Chapter 10 I Was Fit for the Army But Nothing Else 203
Chapter 11 In a Hell of a Fix 221
Chapter 12 No Man Can Foresee the End 238
Chapter 13 Action at Bull Run 254
Chapter 14 "Crazy" in Kentucky 274
Chapter 15 Triumphant in Tennessee 300
Chapter 16 This is no Common War 325
Chapter 17 The Strongest Place I Ever Saw 350
Chapter 18 The River of Our Greatness is Free 375
Chapter 19 Why Was I Not Killed at Vicksburg? 415
Chapter 20 One Hundred Thousand Strong 448
Chapter 21 I Knew More of Georgia Than the Rebels Did 472
Chapter 22 I Want a Bold Push for Atlanta 498
Chapter 23 It's a Big Game, But I Know I Can Do It 546
Chapter 24 Taking the War to the Braggart Carolinians 594
Chapter 25 A Soldier of Renown 625
Chapter 26 General-In-Chief, I 665
Chapter 27 General-In-Chief, II 690
Chapter 28 We Can Only Bow to the Inevitable 712
Acknowledgments 723
About the Sources 725
Notes 727
Index 787