"More than one hundred fifty years after General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, the writings of these two remarkable men continue to spark interest in the Civil War. Grant's Personal Memoirs and Lee's Recollections and Letters remain not only decisive histories of the Civil War and its military leaders, but also fundamental texts for understanding the character of the United States and her heroes." --Barnes and Noble website.
Faced with failing health and financial ruin, the Civil War's greatest general and former president wrote his personal memoirs to secure his family's future - and won himself a unique...
Faced with failing health and financial ruin, the Civil War's greatest general and former president wrote his personal memoirs to secure his family's future - and won himself a unique...
Their style is at least flawless, and no man can improve upon it." Highly recommended. Author — General Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885) Text taken, whole and complete, from the edition published in 1885-86, New York, C.L. Webster & Co.
Intelligent, deeply moving firsthand account of Civil War campaigns, considered by many the finest military memoirs ever written. Includes Grant's letters to his wife, photographs by Mathew Brady, maps, more.
Completed just days before his death and hailed by Mark Twain as "the most remarkable work of its kind since the Commentaries of Julius Caesar," this is the now-legendary autobiography of ULYSSES SIMPSON GRANT (1822-1885), 18th president of ...
I and II) Ulysses S. Grant Rod Paschall. friends and family for handouts . While other prominent Americans look to publishing their recollections as a crowning event undertaken in the leisure of retirement , Grant had to write his 1885 ...
This is the first comprehensively annotated edition of Grant’s memoirs, clarifying the great military leader’s thoughts on his life and times through the end of the Civil War and offering his invaluable perspective on battlefield ...
This edition of Grant’s Personal Memoirs includes an indispensable introduction and explanatory notes by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian James M. McPherson.
The remarkable story of how one of America’s greatest military heroes became a literary legend.
This two-volume set was originally published by Mark Twain shortly after Grant's death.