By early August, 1863, Ulysses S. Grant had settled into administrative routine following the fall of Vicksburg, Mississippi—but Grant wasn’t one to sit idle long. He had set his eye on Mobile, Alabama, which he was “very anxious to take” and which he thought he could do “with comparative ease.” But even as Grant eyed … Continue reading In the Wake of Vicksburg, U. S. Grant as Commander of the Army of the Potomac?