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Three Years With Grant: As Recalled by War Correspondent Sylvanus Cadwallader Paperback – November 28, 1996

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  • Paperback: 362 pages
  • Publisher: Bison Books (November 28, 1996)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0803263694
  • ISBN-13: 978-0803263697
  • Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.9 x 8.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
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Brooks D. Simpson is the author of Let Us Have Peace: Ulysses S. Grant and the Politics of War and Reconstruction, 1861–1868 and other books. He is an associate professor of American history at Arizona State University.

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Intimate portrait of General Grant
By Candace Scott on June 11, 1998
Format: Paperback
This is a controversial book because of one reason: the author maintains he witnessed Grant getting drunk during the Vicksburg campaign in 1863. Why this is particularly contentious with Grant supporters is a trifle mystifying, but Grant fans still vociferously contend the author "embellished" or "lied" about the drinking binge. Never mind that two other people who were also with Grant corroborate the drinking story. Never mind that his chief of staff specifically wrote about the binging in a private letter.
Aside from this drinking anecdote, the book is a warm, rich portrayal of General Grant from a man with a discerning eye. Cadwallader relates many small incidents of Grant's everyday life as a man and as a general that are fascinating and not to be found in other first-person narratives.
Cadwallader truly loved Grant and his book shows his regard and his profound attachment to him. It's a pity that so many people denigrate such a fine book simply because they feel the author's memory was fallible or because they refuse to see Grant as a multi-facted man. A man with his share of human frailties and weaknesses, but still a towering individual: a great general and a man of uncommon moral fiber and decency. If you know little about Grant, this is a good place to begin a journey in seeking to know him as a man and as a great soldier who saved the union.
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A Different Perspective
By Michael E. Fitzgerald on January 24, 2009
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During the early part of the Civil War, war correspondents were, for the most part, despised reptilians. As far as most of the Union High Command was concerned, they were a scurrilous lot that could not be trusted to be fair in their reporting. They were people who fabricated stories, published battle plans before the battle, were capable of being bribed to produce favorable and untrue stories to assist in one's career planning and could, with the scratch of a pen, terminate the careers of good soldiers. Small wonder the relationship between journalism and the military was adversarial.

Sylvanus Cadwallader set standards in Civil War journalism. This is not a story about the Civil War but rather is the story of how this intrepid man's character enabled him to establish himself as a valuable addition to Sam Grant's Headquarters staff. Becoming a permanent fixture on Grant's staff he literally endeared himself as a trusted confidant. His tent was always pitched close to Grant's, Grant signed passes that enabled him to go wherever he wanted, whenever he wanted to. He had the ability to use, even commandeer, any form of transportation he required, horse, train or boat. He did not abuse his privileges nor did he betray confidences.

These reminisces reveal information not contained in his dispatches.Read more ›
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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful
good book
By A Customer on July 26, 2000
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If you are familiar with the campaigns of General Grant then you will find this book worthwile.Cadwallader has a front row seat at Vicksburg, Chattanoga,the Wilderness,and Appomattox. He is a reporter therefore a professional writer which helps. His book is filled with inside information on all the principle figureheads of the time. Also it is the only book I ever read that gives us the reader the inside true story on the rumours of General Grants drinking problem.
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Great book on General Grant the man.
By contractor on February 19, 2015
Format: Paperback
“Three Years With Grant” Sylvanus Cadwallader, University of Nebraska Press, 1955

Sylvanus Cadwallader was a newspaperman who became an “embedded” correspondent with the Army of the Tennessee under the command of a somewhat obscure but rising General, Ulysses S. Grant. He was to become a civilian member of Grants staff and followed him from the fall of 1862 through to the 1865 surrender at Appomattox at which he was present.

In the 1800s newspapers were the only medium for information. However, the standards of professionalism were not at all universal in the press of the age. Many Civil War correspondents were as apt to report; rumor, inference, gossip, favoritism and conjecture, as they were fact. Worst of all, it seems that at times the press had little compunction for revealing sensitive military information. This was important because newspapers circulated between the North and South. For these reasons newspaper reporters were generally mistrusted if not reviled by professional military leaders.

Sylvanus Cadwallader was the opposite of the typical newspaper correspondent. He was intelligent, affable, honest, discrete, accurate and professional. Because of his integrity and his competent writing Cadwallader was quick to earn the respect, trust and friendship of General John Rawlins, Grant’s Chief of staff, and subsequently of the General himself.

Cadwallader was a colleague, close friend and an important member of General Grant’s staff with unlimited access. This book tells the story of General Grant’s war from the view of a trusted insider at his headquarters.Read more ›
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