...d on the conflict in the East. Grant, however, as we have seen, began his career, not on the great and conspicuous stage of the East, but in the West. He did not come to the East until, by taking Vicksburg , he had attracted all eyes to the West, and to the course of events there. We have seen how Grant's first expedition in command ended. The second ended in much the same way, and is related by h...