Dana left the New York Tribune to serve as the War Department’s observer with the armies and then as Assistant Secretary of War. He rode with Grant before Vicksburg, watched Pemberton surrender, saw Rosecrans removed after Chickamauga and Chattanooga relieved, and sketches Grant, Sherman, Stanton and Lincoln from close quarters.
An insider’s memoir, published in 1898, that historians still quote for its first-hand portraits of the Union high command. Download the free EPUB.