Campaigning With Grant

by Horace Porter

33 chapters15h 54mEnglish1906

About this book

In the last year of the American Civil War, Horace Porter served as aide-de-camp to General Ulysses S. Grant, then commander of all the armies of the North. This lively 1897 memoir was written from the extensive notes he took during that time. It is highly regarded by later historians. Porter continued in that position with Grant to 1869. From 1869 to 1872 he served Grant as personal secretary in the White House. He was U.S. ambassador to France from 1897-1905. ( David Wales)

Chapters (32)

1My First Meeting With General Grant, etc

1806

2A Higher Grade Created For Grant, etc

1973

3Preparations For A General Advance, etc

2339

4Grant’s Preparations For The Second Day In The Wilderness, etc

1975

5Grant’s Third Day In The Wilderness, etc

2057

6Communicating With Burnside, etc

2139

7Grant and Meade, etc

1425

8Attempt To Turn The Union Right, etc

1523

9Grant Crosses The North Anna, etc

1399

10Grant Crosses The Pamunkey, etc

1908

11Strength Of Lee’s Position At Cold Harbor, etc

1236

12Grant Decides To Cross The James, etc

1374

13The Start For The James, etc

1191

14Petersburg, etc

1282

15Lincoln’s First Visit To Grant’s Camp, etc

2043

16A Disappointed Band-Master, etc

2706

17Preparing The Petersburg Mine, etc

2032

18The Storming Of New Market heights, etc

2305

19Grant Visits Sherman, etc

1395

20Grant’s Narrow Escape At Hatcher’s Run, etc

1374

21Grant Suggests A Plan For Voting In The Field, etc

1799

22Planning The First Fort Fisher Expedition, etc

2038

23Senator Nesmith Visits Grant, etc

1400

24Capture Of Fort Fisher, etc

2173

25Grant Plans The Spring Campaigns, etc

1622

26Grant Draws The Net Tighter Around The Enemy, etc

1702

27Meeting Of Grant And Sherman At City Point, etc

1827

28The Movement Against Five Forks, etc

1702

29Grant Enters Petersburg, etc

1810

30Grant’s Ride To Appomattox, etc

1999

31After The Surrender, etc

2022

32Sherman’s Terms To Joseph E. Johnston, etc

1602

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