In the summer of 1863 after the climactic battle at Vicksburg, Lincoln's government was more interested in Ulysses Simpson Grant than any other man alive. Although he was their most successful soldier, few men in Washington had even met him. Over the next several months his face, his morals, his total conduct would become commonly known and discussed by a nation tragically divided by the Civil War. Richard Henry Dana, Jr., was later to describe him as having "no gait, no manner, and no station -- and as looking like "nobody at all." Yet as his close comrade-in-arms, General William T. Sherman, put it: "To me he is a mystery, and I believe he is a mystery to himself."

Includes maps of: Railroad Network in the Tennessee Theater of War; Chattanooga Battlefield and the "Cracker Line"; Railroads of Virginia and Grant's Plan of Campaign for 1864; Routes from the Wilderness to Spotsylvania C.H.; Advance to the James River; Cold Harbor to Petersburg; Petersburg Battlefields; Theater of Pursuit from Petersburg to Appomattox.

Political Innocent--The Road to Chattanooga--I Have Never Felt Such Restlessness Before--The Miracle on Missionary Ridge--The Enemy Have Not Got Army Enough--The High Place--Continue to Be Yourself--Campaign Plans and Politics--The Fault is Not with You--In the Wilderness--If It Takes All Summer--Beyond the Bloody Angle--Roll On, Like a Wave--On the Banks of the James-- A Question of TIme--So Fair an Opportunity--Roughshod or ON Tiptoe--The Hundred-Gun Salutes--I Will Work This Thing Out Yet--Much is Now Expected--A Letter from General Lee--I Feel Now Like Ending the Matter--Our Countrymen Again--Stranger in a Stranger Land