"A superb pieces of technical military history, characterized by thoroughness, accuracy, and insight... It is...an enduring contribution to our military history." -David Donald, the New York Herald Tribune--New York Herald-Tribune "A painstaking, thorough, and revealing study of one of the Civil War's most important campaigns. It throws much new and valuable light on the logistics and on the generalship of Grant and Lee" -Bell I. Wiley, author of The Life of Billy Yank, the Life of Johnny Reb, and Confederate Women.--Bell I. Wiley

