My Recollections of Lincoln, Grant, and Sherman (Abridged, Annotated)
Author | : Grenville Mellen Dodge |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 2017-01-05 |
ISBN-10 | : 1520318073 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781520318073 |
Rating | : 4/5 (073 Downloads) |
Download or read book My Recollections of Lincoln, Grant, and Sherman (Abridged, Annotated) written by Grenville Mellen Dodge and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-05 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grenville Dodge, builder of the Union Pacific Railroad, was a young Union officer serving under Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman during the Civil War. He also had interactions with President Abraham Lincoln and he here remembers them all in personal stories.Highly respected and dependable, Dodge was promoted to general. Throughout the war, he socialized and made war plans with Grant and Sherman, and frequently reported to Lincoln.Many of the anecdotes in this volume can be found nowhere else.Intelligent, observant, and fully aware of the history he was part of, Dodge left us this wonderful volume, first published in 1914, of his memories of the great men who saved the Union.Every memoir of the American Civil War provides us with another view of the catastrophe that changed the country forever.