Grant Strikes South.
Hughes, Jr. Using diaries and letters of participants, official documents, and contemporary newspaper accounts, this book provides a full-length tactical study of the battle that catapulted Grant into prominence. The author also draws sketches of the lives and fates of individual soldiers who fought on both sides, especially of the colorful and enormously dissimilar principal actors, Grant and Polk. 327 pages, 6"x 9", hdbd. #0C12100