Campaigning with Grant

First of all, Porter is the real deal. He was a young Union ordinance officer at Chattanooga when Grant arrived there to break the Confederate siege. Grant took a liking to him and pulled strings in Washington to have him assigned to his staff. The book thus primarily follows Grant's Virginia campai......more

I really enjoyed this memoir of the Civil War. Horace Porter was an aide to Ulysses Grant, and his account, while almost worshipful of Grant, was highly literate and full of good stories and pacing. Porter went on to become American ambassador to France and played the key role in finding the body of......more

It shouldn't have taken me this long to finish this one.. an interesting and intimate portrait of Grant. Slogs a little at times, but also is a close up account from one of his staff through the end of the war.......more

outstanding Gen Porter has a style of writing that is easy to read (his description of a comb over by Gen Ingalls is priceless). The author generally says only good things about his fellow officers (and confederates ). By his position on Grant’s staff he was involved with Grant in every activity fro......more