Grant's War by Ted Jones (1992, Hardcover)

Grant's War
A Novel of the Civil War
by Ted Jones
Publisher:  Presidio
Copyright 1992

The year is 1916.  Arthur Kelly, a Harvard educated historian, is traveling around the country interviewing surviving veterans of the Civil War for a study of Union Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's role in the tragic conflict.

Although many remember Grant as a butcher who coldly, unimaginatively, and methodically sent tens of thousands of his countrymen to their deaths in futile frontal assaults, the portrait of Grant that Kelly draws from the reminiscences of Confederate and Union veterans is shockingly different.

Grant's War examines the Union leader's greatest campaigns -- Vicksburg, the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, and the Appomattox -- through the eyes of officers and men from both sides who fought in them.  Men like Union Sgt. Jeremiah Clemmens, a quadruple amputee who survived a shell burst in Spotsylvania; Brig. Gene. Jacob Gattlin, a Union staff officer who was privy to Grant's strategic planning sessions; Reverend Smith, who, as a colonel leading a regiment during Winfield Scott Hancock's assault on the "Mule Shoe" at Spotsylvania, watched in horror as his twin brother, a rebel major, was killed by his own troops; Confederate Private "Ramrod" Legard, the man who moved up and down the ranks because of his off-duty shenanigans, but whose name appeared on the Confederate "Roll of Honor" after nearly every major battle from First Manassas to Appomattox; and a host of other unforgettable characters.

The portrait of Grant that emerges is one of a compassionate and courageous commander, a brilliant strategist who knew the horrors of combat in an era of rifled weapons and did everything in his power to bring the war to a speedy, but necessarily bloody, conclusion in an effort to spare both his own men and his enemies the pain of prolonged conflict.

Grant's War is a compelling story of men, battle and leadership.  Author Ted Jones has captured the essence of the thrill and horror of the battlefield and the forces that drive men to perform in the most trying circumstances.  Each of the soldiers who appears in his story bears the terrible emotional scars of battle.  Their war was the most terrible of all wars, a civil war pitting brother against brother, countryman against countryman.  It was, as one puts it, "that kind of war."  More importantly, it was Grant's War.

Condition:  Used.  Hardcover.  Dust cover.  Pages are tanned and darkening from age.  Previous owner's "Library Of" stamp is on the front endpaper.  Dust cover and flaps are tanned from age.  Dust cover shows a bit of edge wear and tear and creasing.

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