Campaigning With Grant

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.

It shouldn't have taken me this long to finish this one.. an interesting and intimate portrait of Grant. Slogs a little at times, but also is a close up account from one of his staff through the end of the war.

Horace Porter joined Grants staff in April 1864 as Grant was put in command of all US forces and moved his headquarters to join the Army of the Potomac. It follows Porter from the beginning of the Overland campaign though the end of the war.
This in not just a who was were retelling of the battles o

Horace Porter's memoir of his time serving as one of Grant's aides during the Civil War is the source of much of what is widely known about Grant during the period of the second half of the war when Porter was attached to Grant's staff. For example, Porter is one of the main sources to describe Gran

Different language

The book was difficult bye read at first. The language used is from a different time. Well worth the read tough

First of all, Porter is the real deal. He was a young Union ordinance officer at Chattanooga when Grant arrived there to break the Confederate siege. Grant took a liking to him and pulled strings in Washington to have him assigned to his staff. The book thus primarily follows Grant's Virginia campai

I really enjoyed this memoir of the Civil War. Horace Porter was an aide to Ulysses Grant, and his account, while almost worshipful of Grant, was highly literate and full of good stories and pacing. Porter went on to become American ambassador to France and played the key role in finding the body of

Horace Porter

Campaigning with Grant

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