Grant'S Victory

Two of the great themes of the Civil War are how Lincoln found his war-winning general in Ulysses Grant and how Grant finally defeated Lee. Grant's Victory intertwines these two threads in a grand narrative that shows how Grant made the difference in the war. At Eastern theater battlefields from Bull Run to Gettysburg, Union commanders--whom Lincoln replaced after virtually every major battle--had struggled to best Lee, either suffering embarrassing defeat or failing to follow up success. Meanwhile, in the West, Grant had been refining his art of war at places like Fort Donelson, Shiloh, Vicksburg, and Chattanooga, and in early 1864, Lincoln made him general-in-chief. Arriving in the East almost deus ex machina, and immediately recognizing what his predecessors never could, Grant pressed Lee in nearly continuous battle for the next eleven months--a series of battles and sieges that ended at Appomattox.

Doua dintre marile teme ale Razboiului Civil sunt modul in care Lincoln si-a gasit generalul castigator de razboi in Ulysses Grant si cum Grant l-a invins in cele din urma pe Lee. Victoria lui Grant impleteste aceste doua fire intr-o mare naratiune care arata cum Grant a facut diferenta in razboi.