Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Ulysses S. Grant and the Period of National Preservation and Reconstruction
It is natural to seek as the hero Of each historic movement some man who, more than any other, represents the spirit Of his time. However Opinions may differ as to the relative merits in a strictly mili tary sense of the men Who led our troops to battle, few willdispute the fact that the chief representative Of the Union armies was Ulysses Simpson Grant. As was said by General Sherman, his principal competitor for the first place Each epoch creates its own agents, and General Grant more nearly than any other man impersonated the American character Of 1861 - 65. He will stand, therefore, as the typical hero of the great Civil War Of America Of the nine teenth century.
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