Grant Takes Command by Bruce Catton

In Grant Takes Command, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Bruce Catton delivers a masterful account of Ulysses S. Grant’s rise to supreme command of the Union armies during the final year of the American Civil War. The book opens with Grant’s promotion to lieutenant general and follows his determined campaign to end the conflict — from the bloody battles of the Wilderness and Cold Harbor to the decisive siege of Petersburg and the surrender at Appomattox. Through meticulous research and vivid prose, Catton reveals Grant’s quiet strength, strategic brilliance, and unshakeable resolve, portraying a man whose leadership helped preserve a divided nation.