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On the Trail of Grant and Lee

Chapter 36: Authorities
By Frederick Trevor Hill
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The narrative follows the intertwined lives of Grant and Lee from ancestral backgrounds and early military schooling through frontier and Mexican War service to their contrasting commands during the Civil War, examining campaigns such as Shiloh, Antietam, Vicksburg, Gettysburg, the Wilderness and Petersburg and culminating in surrender and reconstruction. It compares their temperaments, leadership styles, strategic choices and fortunes in battle, drawing on official records and contemporary accounts. The final chapters survey the veterans' postwar careers and public roles. Throughout the text the author seeks a balanced, non‑partisan account that highlights shared qualities of character while tracing tactical decisions and their larger consequences for the nation.





Authorities

The following is a partial list of the authorities relied upon in the text:

Grant's Personal Memoirs; Recollections and Letters of General Robert E. Lee (Captain R. E. Lee); Life of Robert E. Lee (Fitzhugh Lee); Robert E. Lee—Memoirs of His Military and Personal History (Long); Military History of U. S. Grant (Badeau); Grant in Peace (Badeau); R. E. Lee—The Southerner (Page); Robert E. Lee (Trent); Robert E. Lee and the Southern Confederacy (White); McClelland's Own Story; Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War (Henderson); The Story of the Civil War (Ropes); The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government (Davis); History of the United States (1850-1877 Rhodes); The Campaign of Chancellorsville (Bigelow); Personal Memoirs (Sheridan); Memoirs of General Sherman; Reminiscences of Carl Shurz; From Manassas to Appomattox (Longstreet); Abraham Lincoln—A History (Nicolay and Hay); The Army Under Pope (Ropes); The Antietam and Fredericksburg (Palfrey); The Virginia Campaign of 1864 and 1865 (Humphreys); Chncellorsville (Doubleday); Life and Letters of Robert E. Lee (Jones); Ulysses S. Grant (Wister); Ulysses S. Grant (Garland); Campaigning with Grant (Porter); Autobiography of O. O. Howard.