by Jeff Shaara
CAPTAIN ANDREW HICKENLOOPER
Considered a rising star among the Federal army’s engineers, Hickenlooper is rewarded for his exceptional service at Vicksburg by a gold medal from the command board of McPherson’s Seventeenth Corps.
He rises to the position of judge advocate under Grant, and assistant inspector general for Seventeenth Corps. At the war’s end, he is awarded a brevet rank of brigadier general.
Returning to his home state of Ohio, Hickenlooper serves as president of the Cincinnati Gas Light Company, becoming a noted expert in the field of public utilities. He enters politics, and in 1879 serves as that state’s lieutenant governor. He dies in 1900, at age sixty-three.
ADMIRAL DAVID DIXON PORTER
Foster brother to renowned admiral David Farragut, Porter serves the United States Navy to high honors through the end of the war, notably as commander of the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron. In late 1864, his contribution to the fall of the Confederacy’s last major seaside bastion, Fort Fisher, brings him an official letter of thanks from Congress, his fourth such accolade.
After the war, he serves a five-year stint as superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy, at Annapolis, Maryland. He is promoted to full admiral shortly thereafter, the title made retroactive for his service throughout much of the war.
Penning his memoirs, and numerous other publications, he is regarded as one of this nation’s finest naval officers. He dies in 1891, at age seventy-eight, and is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
AND FROM THESE PAGES
William T. Sherman, Ulysses Grant, Joseph Johnston, Fritz Bauer, Samuel Willis, James McPherson, among many others, have hopes for a rapid end to this war, but those will only be realized when the last great campaigns are waged across lands that have yet to feel the torment and destruction of a human disaster that goes far beyond what any soldier, politician, or civilian could have predicted.
ALSO BY JEFF SHAARA
A Blaze of Glory
Gods and Generals
The Last Full Measure
Gone for Soldiers
Rise to Rebellion
The Glorious Cause
To the Last Man
Jeff Shaara’s Civil War Battlefields
The Rising Tide
The Steel Wave
No Less Than Victory
The Final Storm
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
JEFF SHAARA is the New York Times bestselling author of A Blaze of Glory, The Final Storm, No Less Than Victory, The Steel Wave, The Rising Tide, To the Last Man, The Glorious Cause, Rise to Rebellion, and Gone for Soldiers, as well as Gods and Generals and The Last Full Measure—two novels that complete the Civil War trilogy that began with his father’s Pulitzer Prize–winning classic, The Killer Angels. Jeff was born into a family of Italian immigrants in New Brunswick, New Jersey. He grew up in Tallahassee, Florida, and graduated from Florida State University. He lives in Tallahassee.
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