Grant Under Fire: An Exposé of Generalship & Character in the American Civil War
A groundbreaking book by Joseph A. Rose challenges Ulysses S. Grant's reputation as a military genius and as a reliable chronicler of America's bloodiest conflict. Grant Under Fire dissects his military career to show how he was remarkably untruthful, careless, persistent, indolent, aggressive, unjust, biased, impetuous and lucky, while his Personal Memoirs are shown to be essentially unreliable.
New York, NY, September 3, 2015 (Newswire.com) - Grant suffered the biggest military surprise of the Civil War, committed the worst official act of anti-Semitism on United States soil, and came closest of all federal commanders to losing Washington, D.C. In ranking his generalship above Robert E. Lee’s, Grant’s defenders ignore both his crude, pugnacious strategies that resulted in a costly war of attrition and his amateurish tactics of impulsive, futile frontal assaults against fortified positions. Besides, his rampant cronyism poisoned the Union war effort. These flaws and failures and many, many more are comprehensively investigated in this book.
Commendations:
Grant Under Fire is a thought-provoking study of the generalship and strategy of U.S. Grant during the Civil War. Joseph A. Rose convincingly argues that a close study of the historical record refutes Grant's reputation as a military genius and common sense strategist. Rose writes with a vigorous style, and supports his thesis with impressive research and incisive analysis.
Robert I. Girardi, Author of The Soldiers' General: Major General Gouverneur K. Warren and the Civil War
Impressively researched, Grant Under Fire is an iconoclastic but exceptionally well documented contribution to our clearer and more in-depth understanding of the role Grant played in the American Civil War. Informed and informative, Grant Under Fire is a seminal work of exhaustive scholarship.—Midwest Book Review
Praise from noted Civil War authors:
Joseph A. Rose presents an engaging critical assessment of Grant’s generalship that is destined to provoke lively debate.—Gordon Rhea
Rose writes with a vigorous style, and supports his thesis with impressive research and incisive analysis.—Robert I. Girardi
Grant Under Fire reveals a general with a dramatically different character than the one he portrayed for himself.—Lawrence Lee Hewitt
A well-written, exhaustively researched essay.—John Horn
Rose’s prodigious and impeccable scholarship greatly strengthens his penetrating analysis of both Grant the man and Grant the commander.—William Glenn Robertson
Just to set the record straight, there should be more future insightful research and commentary, as you will find here.—Wiley Sword
It is a must for any serious student of the Civil War.—Frank Varney
This unique work resolves such controversies as Grant’s drunken partying with the enemy, unfairly blaming Lew Wallace for the slow march to Shiloh, pretending to possess a plan to pass Vicksburg, taking credit for the charge up Missionary Ridge, leaving wounded men to die between the lines at Cold Harbor, and mistreating Black soldiers and civilians.
Joseph A. Rose spent twelve years writing Grant Under Fire, combining original research—rigorously based on primary sources—and investigative historiography. This book overturns one hundred fifty years of biased history.
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