MILITARY HISTORY OF ULYSSES S. GRANT, FROM APRIL, 1861, TO APRIL, 1865. BY ADAM BADEAU, BREVET BRIGADIER-GENERAL UNITED STATES ARMY, D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, 1, 3, AND 5 BOND STREET. 1885. PREFACE TO VOLUMES II. AND III. THE first volume of this work relates to the earlier period of General Grant's military career, when I was not personally associated with him, and was intended as a prelude to the more important portion. The present volumes constitute the history of the last year of the war, when he commanded all the armies of the Republic. During this period I was his military secretary and aide-de-camp, and therefore an eye-witness of the important circumstances in which he personally participated. I knew his plans and wishes, as well as his judg ments of men and events. His correspondence with the government, and with army and corps commanders, was familiar to me at the time. have since examined the entire official record of the year, including the returns of troops and all the reports in existence by either national or rebel officers above the rank of brigadier-general. I For what in these volumes is quoted from official sources, I can therefore refer to the original documents, in every instance on file in the national archives; for what relates to personal incident or 101500 |