Campaigning With Grant Porter, General Horace Military,Military History

BOOK DESCRIPTION: 8vo, xviii, 546 pgs, index, frontis with other plates, illustrations, maps. Decorated blue cloth with gilt emblem and title on front cover, gilt titled and decorated spine. Top edge gilt. CONDITION DESCRIPTION: Light rubbing and soiling to covers with evidence of label removal on spine. Interior front hinge cracked, new rear endpapers, else clean and tight. With clear mylar wrapper. CONTENTS DESCRIPTION: The author served as chief of ordnance before becoming a staff officer for General Grant during the last year of the war. That experience served the basis for this account, Campaigning With Grant. REFERENCES: HOWES II 2341; EISNER 495: These recollections of Grant s youthful aide who served with the commander from Chattanooga through war s end my be thought of as a companion to those by Grant himself and by Adam Baneau. NEVINS I pg 148: Penetrating pictures of Grant in action by an educated officer who served as his aide and later assisted Grant in the writing of his memoirs; Porter s narrative first appeared serially in The Century Magazine.