Ulysses S. Grant: And the Strategy of Victory by Laura Ann Rickarby

Introduction Essay by Henry Steele Commager

A Silver Burdett Press Book and Masterful Military Biography of Ulysses S. Grant

When Hannah and Jesse Grant had a son, they gave him the name of one of the heroes of Greek mythology: Ulysses. Little did they know that one day the boy would himself become a figure of heroic legend.

This book, Ulysses S. Grant and the Strategy of Victory by Laura Ann Rickarby—follows Grant from his days as an awkward cadet at West Point to his brave actions in the Mexican War, where he learned that he did indeed have soldier's blood in his veins.

On the battlefields of the Civil War—he rose to glory as Lincoln's greatest general.
Ulysses S. Grant and the Strategy of Victory is one of 10 books in The History of the Civil War, a series that brings the nation's most tragic and turbulent era to life by following the personal stories of its most prominent participants.