Grant Rising: Mapping the Career of a Great Commander Through 1862

Grant Rising: Mapping the Career of a Great Commander Through 1862
ISBN-10
1940169127
ISBN-13
9781940169125
Category
History
Pages
112
Language
English
Published
2015-11-19
Authors
Hal Jespersen, James R. Knight, Dana Lombardy

Description

Grant Rising is an inspired, one-volume summary in maps and text of Ulysses S. Grant's famous battles in 1862 - including Donelson and Shiloh - and also his early life, including his frontier and Mexican War service - as well as his minor engagement in the Western Theater of the American Civil War. Grant Rising features techniques that portray Civil War battles in a new way, such as shaded relief topography, giving the maps a three-dimensional appearance. Plus the use of different color tints to represent command relationships makes it easier to determine which brigades reported to which divisions and corps at a glance. Using slightly different shades of blue and red also allow for easy differentiation of many units on a single map, making the action easier to understand. Grant Rising is a truly new type of map reference book as well as a remarkable history of Grant's early life and career through 1862.

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