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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
PublishingA AcentsAcentsa A-Acentsa Acentss Legacy Reprint Series.
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Other ISBNs in this set include: 0548810036.
Other ISBNs in this set include: 0548810036.
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Other ISBNs in this set include: 0548810036.
Early in 1863 General Grant was under a cloud, blamed for heavy
Union losses at Shiloh, called an undependable drunkard by his
detractors. As Grant moved toward Vicksburg, the Lincoln
administration needed to know more about what was happening in the
remote western theater. Secretary of War Edwin Stanton dispatched a
respected newspaperman. Charles A. Dana, ostensibly to straighten
out payroll matters but actually to observe Grant and the situation
in the army and report back daily. Dana became "the government's
eyes at the front". Recollections of the Civil War, drawing largely
on his reports and originally published in 1898, is a classic to
rank with Grant's Personal Memoirs (also available in a Bison Books
edition). Dana's candid assessment of Grant, other officers, and
campaign operations carried weight with Lincoln and Stanton and
undoubtedly influenced the course of the war. In these pages, Dana
is with Grant and General Sherman throughout the siege of
Vicksburg, riding into the city "at the side of the conqueror".
Later he is with Grant at Spottsylvania, Cold Harbor, and
Petersburg. He is with General Roseerans at Chickamauga; he watches
General Sheridan's troops scale Missionary Ridge at Chattanooga; he
walks through the ruins of Richmond; he attends Lincoln on his
deathbed. Finally, he sees Jefferson Davis in chains at Fortress
Monroe.
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