GRANT RISING

Grant Rising is a remarkable reference book in color maps and text of Ulysses S. Grants famous battles in 1862including Donelson and Shilohand also his early life, including his frontier and Mexican War serviceas well as his minor engagements in the Western Theater of the American Civil War. Grant Rising features techniques that portray Civil War battles in a new way, such as shaded relief topography, giving the maps a three-dimensional appearance. Plus the use of different color tints to represent command relationships makes it easier to determine which brigades reported to which divisions and corps at a glance. Using slightly different shades of blue and red also allow for easy differentiation of many units on a single map, making the action easier to understand. Grant Rising is a truly new type of map reference book as well as an inspired history of Grants early life and career through 1862.