The Training Ground: Grant, Lee, Sherman, and Davis in the Mexican War, 1846-1848

by Dugard, Martin

• ISBN13: 9780803228122
• ISBN10: 0803228120
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-12-01
• Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr

Summary

For four years during the Civil War, Generals Grant and Lee clashed as bitter enemies in a war that bloodied and scorched the American landscape. Yet in an earlier time, they had worn the same uniform and fought together. InThe Training Ground, acclaimed historian Martin Dugard presents the saga of how, two decades before the Civil War, a group of West Point graduatesincluding Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, Jefferson Davis, Stonewall Jackson, and William Tecumseh Shermanfought together as brothers. Drawing on a range of primary sources and original research, Dugard paints a gripping narrative of the Mexican War, which eventually almost doubled the size of the United States. The Training Groundvividly takes us into the thick brush of Palo Alto, where a musket ball narrowly misses Grant but kills a soldier standing near him; through the mountains and ravines of Cerro Gordo, as Lee searches frantically for a secret route into the Mexican army's seemingly invincible position; to Monterrey, as future enemies Davis and Grant ride together into battle; down the California coast, where war-hungry Sherman seeks blood and vengeance. And we are there as the young troops mount the final heroicand deadlyassault on Mexico City. With narrative verve and brilliant research,The Training Groundbrings to light a story of brotherhood, sacrifice, and initiation by fire.

Author Biography

Martin Dugard is the New York Times best-selling author of such nonfiction titles as The Last Voyage of Columbus, Farther Than Any Man, Knockdown, Chasing Lance, and Into Africa.

Table of Contents

Author's Note	p. ix
Appomattox	p. xi
Prologue	p. 3
Line in the Sand
Corpus Christi	p. 39
Rio Grande	p. 47
Rough and Ready	p. 57
Fields of Fire	p. 66
Call to Battle	p. 73
Fort Texas	p. 77
Clash	p. 83
Resaca de la Palma	p. 94
Brown Bess	p. 103
Volunteers	p. 222
Growing Up	p. 220
Taylor's War
Camargo	p. 229
Star-Spangled Banner	p. 136
Eager for Action	p. 242
First Mississippi	p. 250
The Westerner	p. 258
The Rifles	p. 265
Supply Train	p. 271
Prelude	p. 184
Monterrey, Day One	p. 197
Monterrey, Day Two	p. 214
The Mortar	p. 228
Politics and War
Change of Command	p. 235
The Perils of Occupation	p. 243
Policy and Power	p. 249
Scott's War
Transfers	p. 259
The Artillery Officer	p. 263
One Step Closer	p. 268
California	p. 271
Taylor Stands Alone	p. 275
The Hacienda	p. 280
Lobos Isald	p. 286
Invasion	p. 292
National Road	p. 311
Twiggs's Dilemma	p. 315
Reconnaissance	p. 319
Pressing the Advantage	p. 328
The Aztec Club
"Nothing Can Stop This Army"	p. 335
Old Glory	p. 352
Conquest	p. 363
Fourth of July	p. 370
Epilogue	p. 375
Acknowledgments	p. 381
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Selected Notes and Biographies	p. 397
Selected Bibliography	p. 421
Index	p. 431
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