Grant Comes East

About this book

In their runaway bestseller Gettysburg Newt Gingrich and William Forstchen answered the Civil Wars ultimate hypothetical question: What if Lees army had won the victory within its grasp at Gettysburg in 1863? Now through the same extraordinary research and brilliant character studies we take the next step of a provocative journey: The Army of Northern Virginia is poised to invade Washington D.C.. A besieged Lincoln calls on a general with a drinking problem to save the Union. And in the East Ulysses Grant faces a storm of calamity and rivalry--and a war on the verge of being lost... In this extraordinary book the battlefront and home fronts come alive through the eyes of ordinary soldiers and such little known characters as General Herman Haupt commander of the U.S. railroads and the politician turned soldier General Dan Sickles--a political arch-enemy of Grants. As the best of plans are undone and every strategy countered by another GRANT COMES EAST builds to a stunning portrait of the war that was--and the war that might have been...