This is an autobiography by General Ulysses Grant.
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...
Her anecdotes give fascinating glimpses into the years of the American Civil War. One recounts the night President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. Grant insisted she and her husband turn down an invitation to the theater.
The remarkable story of how one of America’s greatest military heroes became a literary legend.
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 ...
This is America's greatest biographer, bringing movingly to life one of our finest but most underappreciated presidents.
Thomas, Lorenzo, iso, 207,258, 259,290, 456 Thompson, Jeff “Swamp Fox,” 159,168 Thompson, Seymour D., 244 Thornton, ... George, 7 Tod, Sally, 7 Todd's Tavern, Virginia, 334 Tom (horse), 125 Torrejón, Anastasio, 70 Tourgée, Albion W., ...
Intelligent, deeply moving account of Civil War campaigns, one of finest military memoirs ever written. Includes letters, photographs, maps, more.
As Perry delves into the story of the men’s deepening friendship and mutual influence, he arrives at the startling discovery of the true model for the character of Huckleberry Finn.
It is also a companion volume to McCrum's very successful 100 Best Novels published by Galileo in 2015. The list of books starts in 1611 with the King James Bible and ends in 2014 with Elizabeth Kolbert's The Sixth Extinction.
Halleck to McClellan, Feb. 19, 1862, Official Records, 1:7:637. 167 “This operator afterwards proved". Memoirs, 219. 168 “Why do you not obey my orders... at Fort Henry”: from Halleck, March 4, 1862, Official Records, 1:10(2):3.