America's hardscrabble general : Ulysses S. Grant, from farm boy to Shiloh / Jack Hurst.

"A detailed analysis of the impact of Grant's civilian experience--both as a youth and later, farming and scrambling between the Mexican War and the Civil War--in helping mold a military method that is a model for excellent American generalship: always go forward, win or lose, so that even...

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Main Author: Hurst, Jack (Author)
Other title:Ulysses S. Grant, from farm boy to Shiloh.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2022]
Series:World of Ulysses S. Grant.
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