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The Ulysses S. Grant Association
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Grant's Life in the West
and His Mississippi Valley Campaigns
by Col. John W. Emerson
Part I
Prefatory Remarks
Chapter 1 - Conditions of Life in the New West in 1843.
Chapter 2 - Life in Jefferson Barracks.
Chapter 3 - Grant's Courtship Begins.
Chapter 4 - Lieutenant Grant Takes a Short Leave of Absence.
Chapter 5 - Grant Proposes to Miss Dent and Is Off for the War.
Chapter 6 - Grant at Fort Jessup
Chapter 7 - Grant Returns to Ask the Consent of Miss Dent's Parents.
Chapter 8 - Grant Rejoins His Regiment and Advances into Texas.
Chapter 9 - Grant Goes with Major Dix to San Antonio and Austin.
Chapter 9 (concluded) - Lieutenant Grant's First "Baptism of Fire" at Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma.
Chapter 10 - Grant Enters Mexico--His Busy and Systematic Life There--He Loses a Friend--Promoted Against His Will.
Chapter 11 - Quartermaster Grant as a Forager.
Chapter 12 - General Scott Takes Command in Person.
Chapter 13 - The Landing at Vera Cruz.
Chapter 14 - Grant at the Siege of Vera Cruz.
Chapter 15 - Grant at the Battle of Cerro Gordo.
Chapter 16 - On to the City of Mexico--The Mexican Defenses Flanked--Battles Before the City--Contreras, Antonia, Cherubusco, Molino del Rey and Chapultepec.
Chapter 15 (sic) - Occupation of the Mexican Capital.
Chapter 16 (sic) - A Scheme to Revolutionize Mexico.
Chapter 17 - Grant Attempts the Ascent of Popocatapetl and Explores the Great Caves of Mexico.
Chapter 18 - Review of Grant's Career in Mexico.
Chapter 19 - Grant's Marriage--His Stay at Sackett's Harbor and Detroit--His Trying Experiences on the Isthmus--His Stay in Benicia and Glimpses of California when the Boom was on.
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Book II
Chapter 1 - Grant Resigns from the Army, and Retires to a Farm in St. Louis County, Missouri.
Chapter 2 - Grant's "Penury" Denied--New Light Thrown Upon His Retirement from the Army.
Chapter 3 - Grant Begins Life as a Farmer.
Chapter 4 - Incidents in the Farm Life of Grant.
Chapter 5 - Grant, the Farmer.
Chapter 6 - Grant, the St. Louis County Farmer and the St. Louis Business Man--St. Louis the Storm Center of Discussion.
Chapter 7 - Origin of the Stories Relative to Grant's "Drinking Habit."
Chapter 8 - Citizen Grant's Habits in General.
Chapter 9 - Grant at Galena.
Chapter 10 - Grant's Reflective Moods.
Chapter 11 - A Much Observed Man.
Chapter 12 - Grant's Views Before the War.
Chapter 13 - Grant Always Content and Philosophical.
Chapter 14 - War Clouds Arise.
Chapter 15 - First War Meeting in Galena.
Chapter 16 - Grant Declines the Captaincy of the Galena Company.
Chapter 17 - Grant Goes to the State Capital.
Chapter 18 - Governor Yates and Captain Grant.
Chapter 19 - Grant Revisits St. Louis.
Chapter 20 - The Conspiracy to Take Missouri out of the Union.
Chapter 21 - Conspiracy Detected.
Chapter 22 - Capture of Camp Jackson.
Chapter 23 - Grant Writes to Washington.
Chapter 24 - Grant Visits His Parents, and Tries to See McClellan.
Chapter 25 - Grant is Appointed Colonel.
Book III
Introduction by the Author.
Chapter 1 - Colonel Grant Ordered to Quincy.
Chapter 2 - Grant Ordered to Ironton.
Chapter 3 - The Governor of Missouri Declares War.
Chapter 4 - Grant's Experience with Missouri "Stills."
Chapter 5 - Grant Marches on the Enemy's Camp.
Chapter 6 - "Grapevine Telegraph" in Missouri.
Chapter 7 - Grant is Ordered to Mexico, Mo.
Chapter 8 - Grant Proceeds to Ironton.
Chapter 9 - Grant Appointed Brigadier-General.
Chapter 10 - General Grant's Plans for His Brigade.
Chapter 11 - Grant's Rapid Movements.
Chapter 12 - Grant Relieved of Command.
Chapter 13 - Reminiscences of Grant at Ironton.
Chapter 14 - Grant Forms His Great Plan of Campaign.
Chapter 15
Chapter 16 - Grant Takes Command at Jefferson City.
Chapter 17 - Grant Returns to Southeast Missouri.
Chapter 18 - Grant Reaches Cairo.
Chapter 19 - Grant Captures Paducah.
Chapter 20 - Grant Prepares to Advance on Belmont.
Chapter 21 - The Battle of Belmont.
Chapter 22 - Later Confederate Admissions.
Chapter 23 - Anomalous Conditions in the Western Department.
Chapter 24 - Naval Preparations on the Western Waters.
Chapter 25 - Delays, Alarms, and Slow Movements of Halleck and Buell. Grant Restrained and Insulted. President Lincoln's Wrath.
Chapter 21 (sic, 26) - General Grant Visits Halleck to Urge a Forward Movement. The Remarkable Interview.
Chapter 27 - Grant's Rapid Handling an Army in the Field--Halleck's Delays and Interferences.
Chapter 28 - Grant's Stratagems to Get Permission to Move against the Enemy--Proof that Halleck was not the Originator of the Tennessee and Cumaerland (sic) River Campaigns.
Chapter 29 - When the Glad News, "Take and Hold Fort Henry," Reached Grant's Headquarters!
Chapter 30 - Halleck and Buell Frightened. The Farcical Side of War.
Chapter 31 - The Bombardment and Capture of Fort Henry.
Chapter 32 - The Confederate Account of the Fall of Fort Henry.
Chapter 33 - The Donelson Campaign.
Chapter 34 - The Strength of the Two Armies.
Chapter 35 - Grant's Strategy at Donelson.
Chapter 36 - Incidents of the Campaign.
Chapter 37 - The Confederates on the Fall of Donelson.
Chapter 38 - Buell's Slow Movements.
Chapter 39 - What General Grant Was Doing.
Chapter 40 - How Beauregard and Halleck Amused Themselves While Grant Awaited Orders.
Chapter 41 - Halleck's Plot Against Grant.
Chapter 42 - Grant Resumes Command.
Chapter 43 - The Shiloh Campaign Begins--Conditions in the West.
Chapter 44 - The Battle.
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
Grant's Vicksburg Campaign
Vicksburg--Preliminary Movements and Preparations.
The Tremendous Task Before Grant.
Grant, Sherman and the Newspapers.
In Search of a Route.
What the Confederates Were Doing.
Grant Confronted by a Mighty Problem.
The Birth of a Great Idea.
The Confederates Running the Blockade.
The Grant Storm.
Running the Vicksburg Batteries.
The Confederates on Running the Blockade.
Grant as a Strategist.
Preparing to Move.
What the Confederates Were Saying and Doing.
Incidents.
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