Grant Comes East - Audio CD - Abridged Author:Newt Gingrich, William Forstchen, Boyd Gaines (Reader) It is July 10th, 1863, and Baltimore is in the hands of the Army of Northern Virginia under the command of Robert E. Lee. Shattered remnants of the Army of the Potomac have fallen back into Washington, digging in, preparing to make a desperate stand. Six days earlier General Ulysses S. Grant and his army of 60,000 had taken Vicksburg. The last t... more »elegram out of Washington before the rebels cut the line changed all that....Grant and his men were to come east and save the Union. Now two of American’s greatest generals will face off in a battle that could decide the fate of a nation.
Excellent account of time frame and intricacy of battle planning and mind set of major players in the Civil War. Even though I'm not a Civil War reader, I found this very interesting and learned quite alot about the strategy of wartime planning.