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Campaigning With Grant

by Horace PORTER (1837 - 1921)

Preface

Campaigning With Grant

In the last year of the American Civil War, Horace Porter served as aide-de-camp to General Ulysses S. Grant, then commander of all the armies of the North. This lively 1897 memoir was written from the extensive notes he took during that time. It is highly regarded by later historians. Porter continued in that position with Grant to 1869. From 1869 to 1872 he served Grant as personal secretary in the White House. He was U.S. ambassador to France from 1897-1905. ( David Wales)

Listen next episodes of Campaigning With Grant:
A Disappointed Band-Master, etc , A Higher Grade Created For Grant, etc , After The Surrender, etc , Attempt To Turn The Union Right, etc , Capture Of Fort Fisher, etc , Communicating With Burnside, etc , Grant and Meade, etc , Grant Crosses The North Anna, etc , Grant Crosses The Pamunkey, etc , Grant Decides To Cross The James, etc , Grant Draws The Net Tighter Around The Enemy, etc , Grant Enters Petersburg, etc , Grant Plans The Spring Campaigns, etc , Grant Suggests A Plan For Voting In The Field, etc , Grant Visits Sherman, etc , Grant’s Narrow Escape At Hatcher’s Run, etc , Grant’s Preparations For The Second Day In The Wilderness, etc , Grant’s Ride To Appomattox, etc , Grant’s Third Day In The Wilderness, etc , Lincoln’s First Visit To Grant’s Camp, etc , Meeting Of Grant And Sherman At City Point, etc , My First Meeting With General Grant, etc , Petersburg, etc , Planning The First Fort Fisher Expedition, etc , Preparations For A General Advance, etc , Preparing The Petersburg Mine, etc , Senator Nesmith Visits Grant, etc , Sherman’s Terms To Joseph E. Johnston, etc , Strength Of Lee’s Position At Cold Harbor, etc , The Movement Against Five Forks, etc , The Start For The James, etc , The Storming Of New Market heights, etc