Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Enter Sharpe

2. Joe Hooker: The Transformational Man

3. The Bureau of Military Information: Stands Up

4. First Test: The Chancellorsville Campaign “Sharpe you are the best man I know”

5. The Gettysburg Campaign: Movement to Contact

6. Gettysburg and Sharpe’s Three Golden Gifts To Meade

7. “The Period of Inaction”

8. Enter Grant

9. The Overland Campaign

10. Petersburg and Intelligence Overhaul

11. The Siege of Petersburg

12. Settling with Early in the Valley

13. Winter Hiatus

14. The End

15. A Full Life: Sharpe’s Progress

16. A Public Life

17. The Bugle Echoes

Appendices

Notes

Bibliography