The Grapple
Author	Harry Turtledove
Language	English
Series	Southern Victory
Genre(s)	Alternate history
Publisher	Del Rey
Publication date	2006
Preceded by	Drive to the East
Followed by	In at the Death

PlotEdit

The book deals with the efforts of General Irving Morrell's United States Army, having emerged victorious from the Battle of Pittsburgh, to drive Confederate forces out of Ohio. Morrell pursues the Confederates, under General George Patton, across Kentucky and Tennessee (where he easily takes Chattanooga) and into Georgia in a period of about six months. When the book ends, US forces are an established presence in Georgia and are fast coming within range of Atlanta, despite some fearsome new weapons introduced by the Confederates.

Two major subplots of the book are US General Abner Dowling's ongoing effort to capture and shut down Camp Determination and the race by both the United States and Confederate States to build a uranium bomb.

Viewpoint characters Scipio and Hipolito Rodriguez die in the book. Jerry Dover, Cassius, and Jorge Rodriguez make their debuts as viewpoint characters.

v · d · e Southern Victory Books How Few Remain The Great War (American Front • Walk in Hell • Breakthroughs) American Empire (Blood and Iron • The Center Cannot Hold • The Victorious Opposition) Settling Accounts (Return Engagement • Drive to the East • The Grapple • In at the Death) 1 of 11 Add photo POV Characters Reggie Bartlett • Flora Blackford • Sam Carsten • Samuel Clemens • Anne Colleton • Tom Colleton • George Custer • Frederick Douglass • Jerry Dover • Abner Dowling • Cincinnatus Driver • George Enos • George Enos, Jr. • Sylvia Enos • Jake Featherston • Lucien Galtier • Armstrong Grimes • Thomas Jackson • Roger Kimball • Abraham Lincoln • Cassius Madison • Paul Mantarakis • Chester Martin • Arthur McGregor • Gordon McSweeney • Irving Morrell • Jonathan Moss • Leonard O'Doull • Jefferson Pinkard • Mary McGregor Pomeroy • Michael Pound • Clarence Potter • Stephen Ramsay • Hipolito Rodriguez • Jorge Rodriguez • Theodore Roosevelt • Scipio • Alfred von Schlieffen • Nellie Semphroch • Jeb Stuart Countries United States • Confederate States • Canada • Mexico • Republic of Quebec • Britain • France • Russia • Germany • Austria-Hungary • Ottoman Empire • Japan Events War of Secession • Second Mexican War • Great War • Pacific War • Second Great War Politicial Parties Democratic Party • Socialist Party • Republican Party • Whig Party • Radical Liberal Party • Freedom Party