. Beautiful book jacket covers 546 pages of Grant's dealings with Lincoln, of the close relationship between Sherman & Grant, of Lee's noble bearing at the culminating meeting of these two great opponents.

Here is an account both stirring and down-to-earth that brings to life our country's most memorable conflict. ..From April 1864 until the end of the war, Horace Porter served as Lt. Colonel attached to Ulyses S. Grant's staff. He accompanied Grant into battle in the Wilderness, Cold Harbor, & Petersburg campaigns and was there at the final surrender at McLean's house. During this time he kept extensive notes of Grant's conversations, as well as of his own. This book brings you his recollections, not only with a soldier's practiced eye, but also a writer's intelligence. OVERSIZE!