NF Campaigning With Grant

[cash]

http://studycivilwar.wordpress.com/2014/12/06/campaigning-with-grant/

 

[chellers]

Campaigning With Grant is available free on Google eBook:
http://books.google.com/books/about/Campaigning_with_Grant.html?id=W6JYAAAAMAAJ

or on Kindle for $0.99:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B009OW6Q62/?tag=civilwartalkc-20

 

[KansasFreestater]

I am currently reading this magnificent book.... and it blows me away!!

I feel that I've discovered a "treasure hiding in plain view." This book has been quoted, excerpted, referenced in so many other works that I keep coming across passages that are so familiar I nearly know them by heart -- but had not realized they originated with Horace Porter. (Al has included many of these in his review, above.)

I'm humbled that it's taken me three and a half years of studying Grant to finally get around to reading one of the great primary sources on him. I just happened to run across a like-new hardbound copy of the book for an incredibly low price at a secondhand-book store when I was in Dallas last week. Had I not gone into that store, who knows how long it would have taken me to get around to checking out this magnificent book?! (And I only discovered Al's wonderful review when I logged in here at CWT and did a search to see if anyone had already done a thread about it yet. Shoulda known that @cash had it covered! )

Have the other Grantophiles around here read this book? Paging @Bee, @LoriAnn, @wausaubob, @shermans_march ...
I cannot recommend it highly enough! I kinda knew I was going to love it when I read Porter's preface, in which he tells the reader that he will not be giving a blow-by-blow, regiment-by-regiment type account of battles and such, but rather, that his aim in his book is "to recount the daily acts of General Grant in the field, to describe minutely his personal traits and habits, and . . . . to enable readers to view the Union commander near by, and to bring them into such intimate contact with him that they may know him as familiarly as those who served by his side."

Porter has not disappointed thus far. I'm only 50 pages into this 500-page book (by the way, those are short pages, so the whole thing's the equivalent of maybe the typical 250-page book), and already I have had many "Be still, my heart!" moments....

 

[Bee]

I am currently reading this magnificent book.... and it blows me away!!

I feel that I've discovered a "treasure hiding in plain view." This book has been quoted, excerpted, referenced in so many other works that I keep coming across passages that are so familiar I nearly know them by heart -- but had not realized they originated with Horace Porter. (Al has included many of these in his review, above.)

I'm humbled that it's taken me three and a half years of studying Grant to finally get around to reading one of the great primary sources on him. I just happened to run across a like-new hardbound copy of the book for an incredibly low price at a secondhand-book store when I was in Dallas last week. Had I not gone into that store, who knows how long it would have taken me to get around to checking out this magnificent book?! (And I only discovered Al's wonderful review when I logged in here at CWT and did a search to see if anyone had already done a thread about it yet. Shoulda known that @cash had it covered! )

Have the other Grantophiles around here read this book? Paging @Bee, @LoriAnn, @wausaubob, @shermans_march ...
I cannot recommend it highly enough! I kinda knew I was going to love it when I read Porter's preface, in which he tells the reader that he will not be giving a blow-by-blow, regiment-by-regiment type account of battles and such, but rather, that his aim in his book is "to recount the daily acts of General Grant in the field, to describe minutely his personal traits and habits, and . . . . to enable readers to view the Union commander near by, and to bring them into such intimate contact with him that they may know him as familiarly as those who served by his side."

Porter has not disappointed thus far. I'm only 50 pages into this 500-page book (by the way, those are short pages, so the whole thing's the equivalent of maybe the typical 250-page book), and already I have had many "Be still, my heart!" moments....

Yes ma'am -- stumbled upon it like you did. Now you have me curious: I did not know that a review had been posted!

 

[KansasFreestater]

Yes ma'am -- stumbled upon it like you did. Now you have me curious: I did not know that a review had been posted!

We can usually assume that Al is way out ahead on the curve beyond both of us! (Though probably not "smitten" in quite the way we are.... )

 

[Bee]

We can usually assume that Al is way out ahead on the curve beyond both of us!

Most definitely!!!!!

Edit: @cash is in excess of 2,000+ books ahead of me

 

[wausaubob]

I am inclined to try to find Sherman's memoirs on line again. Sherman had better knowledge of the war, was better educated than Grant, and was not under any pressure when he wrote.