Ulysses S. Grant and the Strategy of Victory by Laura Ann RickarbyUlysses S. Grant and the Strategy of Victory by Laura Ann Rickarby This book follows Grant from his days as an awkward cadet at West Point to his brave actions in the Mexican War, where he learned that he did indeed have soldier's blood in his veins. On the nattlefields of the Civil War, he rose to glory as Loncoln's greatest general.