Contents

List of Maps

Epigraph

Preface

ONE   The Early Years

TWO   Mexico

THREE  Resignation

FOUR   War

FIVE   “Unconditional Surrender”

SIX   Shiloh

SEVEN   Vicksburg

EIGHT   Chattanooga

NINE   General in Chief

TEN   The Wilderness

ELEVEN   Grant and Lee

TWELVE   Appomattox

THIRTEEN   Reconstruction

FOURTEEN   Let Us Have Peace

FIFTEEN   Grant in the White House

SIXTEEN   Diplomacy

SEVENTEEN   Great White Father

EIGHTEEN   Reconstruction Revisited

NINETEEN   The Gilded Age

TWENTY   Taps

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index