It could be an American fairy tale. Once upon a time, a young boy who loved horses gained a West Point appointment and became the North’s most successful general, battered the Confederacy into submission and, more than any other person but Abraham Lincoln, saved the Union.
Of course, the evolution of Ulysses S. Grant as a military leader is much more complex than that. In his latest book, (SIU Press, 2023), finds the roots of Grant’s success as a military strategist and leader of men deep in his hardscrabble years prior to the
