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Catton, Bruce, 1899-1978, author.

Grant moves south / by Bruce Catton ; with maps by Samuel H. Bryant.

[First edition].

Boston : Little, Brown and Brown, [1960]

©1960

x, 564 pages : portrait, maps ; 22 cm

This book covers such battles and campaigns as Belmont, Fort Donelson, Shiloh, Corinth, Chickasaw Bayou, Edwards Station, and Vicksburg.

Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885.

Generals -- United States -- Biography.

United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns.

Biographies.

Bryant, Samuel H., cartographer.

Lewis, Lloyd, 1891-1949. Captain Sam Grant.

A continuation of Lloyd Lewis' Captain Sam Grant.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 539-547) and index.

"Tomorrow I move South" -- Assignment in Missouri -- Time of preparation -- "You looked like giants" -- General Halleck takes over -- Limited objectives -- Between the rivers -- Unconditional surrender -- Aftermath of victory -- "What command have I now?" -- The guns on the bluff -- The question of surprise -- The unpronounceble man -- "To be terrible on the enemy" -- Victory, and a new plan -- Forrest, Van Dorn and McClernand -- A noun is the name of a thing -- Winter of discontent -- The man on the river -- An end to worry -- "Hardtack! Hardtack!" -- The core of iron -- Sling the knapsack for new fields.

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