Later, in Mississippi, he conducted the arduous campaign against Vicksburg, cutting the confederacy in half and capturing a second army. Early in 1862, with the conflict a year old and both sides in the West reluctant to fight, Grant seized the initiative and took Forts Henry and Donelson, capturing an entire rebel army. What he knew best, it turned out, was how to wage war, relentlessly and with irresistible force. Grant made the most of unexpected commands. out a living for himself and his family with hardscrabble jobs, at the outbreak of hostilities he suddenly found himself a colonel, and then a general, of volunteers. Forced to resign his commission in the peacetime army for drinking, and thereafter reduced to eking. Grant, whose military genius ultimately preserved the Union, came to the forefront in the Civil War is a story as surprising as it is compelling. Grant's Rise to Command (Trade Paperback / Paperback)
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