![]() ![]() Taking command of the Army of the Potomac, he forced Lee’s surrender, although it took a year. His brilliant campaign at Vicksburg made him a national hero. Unlike other Union commanders, he was aggressive and unfazed by setbacks. At the outbreak of the Civil War, he was the only West Point graduate in the area, so local leaders gave him a command. A middling West Point graduate, Grant performed well during the Mexican War but resigned his commission, enduring seven years of failure before getting lucky. Historians changed their minds a generation ago, and acclaimed historian Chernow ( Washington: A Life, 2010, etc.), winner of both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, goes along in this doorstop of a biography, which is admiring, intensely detailed, and rarely dull. Lee into submission and then became a bad president. Grant (1822-1885): a modest but brutal general who pummeled Robert E. Most Americans know the traditional story of Ulysses S. A massive biography of the Civil War general and president, who “was the single most important figure behind Reconstruction.” ![]()
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