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Grant Moves South

By: Bruce Catton
Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
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A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian's acclaimed Civil War history of the complex man and controversial Union commander whose battlefield brilliance ensured the downfall of the Confederacy.

Preeminent Civil War historian Bruce Catton narrows his focus on commander Ulysses S. Grant, whose bold tactics and relentless dedication to the Union ultimately ensured a Northern victory in the nation's bloodiest conflict.

While a succession of Union generals - from McClellan to Burnside to Hooker to Meade - were losing battles and sacrificing troops due to ego, egregious errors, and incompetence, an unassuming Federal Army commander was excelling in the Western theater of operations. Though unskilled in military power politics and disregarded by his peers, Colonel Grant, commander of the Twenty-First Illinois Volunteer Infantry, was proving to be an unstoppable force. He won victory after victory at Belmont, Fort Henry, and Fort Donelson, while brilliantly avoiding near-catastrophe and ultimately triumphing at Shiloh. And Grant's bold maneuvers at Vicksburg would cost the Confederacy its invaluable lifeline: the Mississippi River. But destiny and President Lincoln had even loftier plans for Grant, placing nothing less than the future of an entire nation in the capable hands of the North's most valuable military leader.

Based in large part on military communiqués, personal eyewitness accounts, and Grant's own writings, Catton's extraordinary history offers listeners an insightful look at arguably the most innovative Civil War battlefield strategist, unmatched by even the South's legendary Robert E. Lee.

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A DISAPPOINTING CONCLUSION TO THE GRANT TRILOGY

Prior to purchasing this third volume of the Grant trilogy, I had listened to and greatly enjoyed Kevin T. Collins's reading of volume 2, "Grant Takes to Command". "Grant Moves South" proved a grave disappointment from the very first minute, when I realised that the reader had been replaced; worse yet, the new reader seemed to me totally unsuitable to this particular task, with an affected voice which adopted a lethally slow pace, which seemed to include a break of a fraction of a second after every word. Perhaps I was unduly influenced by this fact, but I was also disappointed in Catton's text; compared to the excellent tactical, strategic and political narrative of volume 2, the author now seemed to spend far too much time on the minutiae of Grant's family life, right down to repeated passages on the general's determination to secure adequate schooling for his children. All in all, I regret to report that I gave up entirely about a third of the way through.

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