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Historical person
1822–1885
Ulysses S. Grant was the Union general who became the eighteenth president of the United States. He led campaigns at Vicksburg and Chattanooga, accepted Lee’s surrender at Appomattox and later used federal power to defend Reconstruction governments and suppress the Ku Klux Klan.
Grant's earlier army career included service in the Mexican-American War, followed by resignation and several difficult civilian years. Returning to the army in 1861, victories at Fort Donelson, Vicksburg and Chattanooga brought him command of all Union armies, and in 1864–65 he coordinated campaigns that steadily exhausted Confederate resistance. As president from 1869 to 1877 he supported Reconstruction and federal action against white supremacist violence, although scandals involving members of his administration damaged his political reputation.
Hourly History’s Battle of Shiloh recounts the sudden Confederate attack on Ulysses S. Grant’s army near Pittsburg Landing in April 1862. Hourly History’s Battle of the Wilderness opens Ulysses S. Grant’s Overland Campaign of 1864, when the Army of the Potomac crossed the Rapidan and met Robert E. Lee in dense Virginia woodland. Further fictional perspectives on Ulysses S. Grant can be found in Gore Vidal’s 1876, Jeff Shaara’s A Blaze of Glory, Jeff Shaara’s A Chain of Thunder, and Jeff Shaara’s Gone for Soldiers. For broader historical treatment of Ulysses S. Grant, see Robert Harvey’s Mavericks.
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The Gettysburg Trilogy is an alternate-history Civil War sequence that begins by changing the outcome of the Battle of Gettysburg. A Confederate victory gives Robert E. Lee the initiative, opening a campaign against Washington while Abraham Lincoln turns to Ulysses S. Grant to rebuild the Union war effort.…
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The Civil War in the West is a four-volume sequence following the principal campaigns that decided control of the Mississippi Valley and the Deep South. A Blaze of Glory reconstructs Shiloh; A Chain of Thunder follows Grant’s Vicksburg campaign; The Smoke at Dawn moves through Chickamauga and Chattanooga;…
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Lucky Jack’s Civil War follows cavalry and raiding in the American Civil War from the Confederate side. The books use irregular operations, scouting, raids and the road to Gettysburg to show a mobile war of risk, divided loyalties and battlefield escalation.
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The Kent Family Chronicles trace successive generations of one family from the eve of the American Revolution to the early 1890s. The saga begins with Phillipe Charboneau, the unrecognised son of an English duke, who becomes Philip Kent in America, and follows his descendants as they build, lose…
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The Civil War Trilogy presents the eastern theatre of the American Civil War through three connected novels. Jeff Shaara’s Gods and Generals follows the principal commanders from the approach of secession to Chancellorsville; Michael Shaara’s Pulitzer Prize-winning The Killer Angels reconstructs Gettysburg; and Jeff Shaara’s The Last Full…
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The North and South Trilogy follows the Mains of South Carolina and the Hazards of Pennsylvania, two families joined when Orry Main and George Hazard become friends at West Point. Their bond survives the Mexican–American War and years of sectional conflict, but slavery, secession and family pressure place…
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Gore Vidal’s seven-volume Narratives of Empire sequence follows the United States from the revolutionary generation to the Cold War, combining the lives of the fictional Schuyler, Sanford and Day families with presidents, senators, journalists and political operators. The novels treat public history as a contest over power, reputation…
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