GRANT RISING: Mapping the Career of a Great Commander Through 1862

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One-volume biography in maps and text of Ulysses S. Grant's famous battles in 1862 - including Donelson and Shiloh. Also covers his early life, including his frontier and Mexican War service as well as his minor engagement in the Western Theater of the American Civil War. It uses shaded relief topography to create maps with three-dimensional appearance. It also uses different color tints to represent command relationships to simplify 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.