Campaigning with Grant
By: by Horace Porter ; introduction by Brooks D. Simpson.
Edition: Bison Books ed.
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 546
Subjects: Grant, Ulysses S. 1822-1885 -- Military leadership; Porter, Horace, 1837-1921; Grant, Ulysses S. 1822-1885 -- Friends and associates; United States. Army -- Biography; Generals -- United States -- Biography; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns
Genres: Biography.; Personal narratives.
Description: "In 1863 Horace Porter, then a captain, met Ulysses S. Grant as Grant commenced the campaign that would break the Confederate siege at Chattanooga. After a brief stint in Washington, Porter rejoined Grant, who was now in command of all Union forces, and served with him as a staff aide until the end of the war.

Porter was at Appomattox as a brevet brigadier general, and this work, written from notes taken in the field, is his eyewitness account of the great struggle between Lee and Grant that led to the defeat of the Confederacy.".

"As a close-up observer of Grant in the field, Porter was also able to draw a finely detailed, fully realized portrait of this American military hero - his daily acts, his personal traits and habits, and the motives that inspired him in important crises - rendered in the language that Grant used at the time. Porter intended to bring readers into such intimate contact with the Union commander that they could know him as well as those who served by his side.

He acquits himself admirably in this undertaking, giving us a moving human document and a remarkable perspective on a crucial chapter of American history."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Originally published: New York : Century, 1897.