CONTENTS

Preface

Prologue      DEATH STARED US ALL IN THE FACE

Chapter 1     MY FATHER NAMED ME WILLIAM TECUMSEH

Chapter 2     I WAS NOTIFIED TO PREPARE FOR WEST POINT

Chapter 3     IN THE SERVICE OF MY COUNTRY

Chapter 4     SAND AND SUN, SEMINOLES AND SPANIARDS

Chapter 5     MILITARY CAMARADERIE, SOUTHERN ARISTOCRACY, PROSPECTIVE MATRIMONY

Chapter 6     AND THEN THERE WAS A WAR ON

Chapter 7     DEPRIVED OF MILITARY GLORY

Chapter 8     CALIFORNIA AGAIN—A BRAND-NEW GAME

Chapter 9     GOLDEN STATE BANKER

Chapter 10   I WAS FIT FOR THE ARMY BUT NOTHING ELSE

Chapter 11   IN A HELL OF A FIX

Chapter 12   NO MAN CAN FORESEE THE END

Chapter 13   ACTION AT BULL RUN

Chapter 14   “CRAZY” IN KENTUCKY

Chapter 15   TRIUMPHANT IN TENNESSEE

Chapter 16   THIS IS NO COMMON WAR

Chapter 17   THE STRONGEST PLACE I EVER SAW

Chapter 18   THE RIVER OF OUR GREATNESS IS FREE

Chapter 19   WHY WAS I NOT KILLED AT VICKSBURG?

Chapter 20   ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND STRONG

Chapter 21   I KNEW MORE OF GEORGIA THAN THE REBELS DID

Chapter 22   I WANT A BOLD PUSH FOR ATLANTA

Chapter 23   IT’S A BIG GAME, BUT I KNOW I CAN DO IT

Chapter 24   TAKING THE WAR TO THE BRAGGART CAROLINIANS

Chapter 25   A SOLDIER OF RENOWN

Chapter 26   GENERAL-IN-CHIEF, I

Chapter 27   GENERAL-IN-CHIEF, II

Chapter 28   WE CAN ONLY BOW TO THE INEVITABLE

Acknowledgments

About the Sources

Notes

Illustrations

Index