Memoirs and Selected Letters: Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Selected Letters 1839-1865
- ISBN-10
- 0940450585
- ISBN-13
- 9780940450585
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 1199
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1990
- Publisher
- Library of America
- Author
- Ulysses S. Grant
Description
Letters from Grant to his wife, fellow officers, and government officials accompany his account of his life as a soldier, from West Point to the end of the Civil War
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