Gateway to the Classics: On the Trail of Grant and Lee by Frederick Trevor Hill

On the Trail of Grant and Lee

by Frederick Trevor Hill

Table of Contents

Foreword

Three Civil Wars

Washington and Lee

Lee at West Point

The Boyhood of Grant

Grant at West Point

Lieutenant Grant under Fire

Captain Lee at the Front

Colonel Lee after the Mexican War

Captain Grant in a Hard Fight

Grant's Difficulties in Securing a Command

Lee at the Parting of the Ways

Opening Moves

Grant's First Success

The Battle of Shiloh

Lee in the Saddle

A Game of Strategy

Lee and the Invasion of Maryland

The Battle of Antietam or Sharpsburg

Lee against Burnside and Hooker

In the Hour of Triumph

Grant at Vicksburg

The Battle of Gettysburg

In the Face of Disaster

The Rescue of Two Armies

Lieutenant-General Grant

A Duel to the Death

Check and Countercheck

The Beginning of the End

At Bay

The Surrender

Lee's Years of Peace

The Head of the Nation

Back Matter

Authorities

The following is a partial list of the authorities relied upon in the text:

Grant's Personal Memoirs; Recollections and Letters of General Robert E. Lee (Captain R. E. Lee); Life of Robert E. Lee (Fitzhugh Lee); Robert E. Lee—Memoirs of His Military and Personal History (Long); Military History of U. S. Grant (Badeau); Grant in Peace (Badeau); R. E. Lee—The Southerner (Page); Robert E. Lee (Trent); Robert E. Lee and the Southern Confederacy (White); McClelland's Own Story; Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War (Henderson); The Story of the Civil War (Ropes); The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government (Davis); History of the United States (1850-1877 Rhodes); The Campaign of Chancellorsville (Bigelow); Personal Memoirs (Sheridan); Memoirs of General Sherman; Reminiscences of Carl Schurz; From Manassas to Appomattox (Long-street); Abraham Lincoln—A History (Nicolay and Hay); The Army Under Pope (Ropes); The Antietam and Fredericksburg (Palfrey); The Virginia Campaign of 1864 and 1865 (Humphreys); Chancellorsville (Doubleday); Life and Letters of Robert E. Lee (Jones); Ulysses S. Grant (Wister); Ulysses S. Grant (Garland); Campaigning with Grant (Porter); Autobiography of O. O. Howard.