Annotated and complete with detailed maps, battle plans, and facsimiles reproduced from the original edition, this volume offers an unparalleled vantage on the most terrible, moving, and inexhaustibly fascinating event in American history. ...
Ulysses S. Grant served as the Commanding General and the 18th President of the United States.
Grant: Journal Notebook Dedicated to the life of Ulysses S. Grant, American Civil War Hero & the 18th President of the USA. Ruled Lined Journal Notebook For Writing, Note Taking, Ideas & Doodling.
Grant: Journal Notebook Dedicated to the life of Ulysses S. Grant, American Civil War Hero & the 18th President of the USA. Ruled Lined Journal Notebook For Writing, Note Taking, Ideas & Doodling.
Grant: Journal Notebook Dedicated to the life of Ulysses S. Grant, American Civil War Hero & the 18th President of the USA. Ruled Lined Journal Notebook For Writing, Note Taking, Ideas & Doodling.
The cancer spread through his body, so the family moved to Mount MacGregor, New York in June 1885 to make him more comfortable. He worked at finishing the book, propped up on chairs and too weak to walk.
In this Special Library Collector's Edition, Historian James W. Edwards has combined the essential elements of Grant's biography with detailed letters written to his family during his tenure, then concluding with all his State of the Union ...
This succinct biography of the famous President Grant has brought much praise. Wister tells Grant's story and shows us Grant, the man. No U.S. leader has such a strange life,...
A biography of the Civil War hero and eighteenth president of the United States.
A biography of the eighteenth president of the United States, with information on his childhood, family, political career, presidency, and legacy.
... 146; pursuit of Reconstruction policies, 149; reprimand of Sherman, 145; tension with Grant, 150–51, 153 Johnston, ... James P., 12, 32 Lyons, Nathaniel, 43 Manassas, Battle of, 51, 56, 123 McClellan, George B., 12, 44 McClernand, ...
The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant. 16 Volumes London and Amsterdam: Southern Illinois University Press, 1967. Tzu, Sun. The Art of War, trans. Samuel B. Griffith, New York: Oxford University Press, 1971. REQUEST FROM THE PUBLISHER Thank ...
The book is a joy to read.” --Larry McMurtry, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lonesome Dove The first officer since George Washington to become a four-star general in the United States Army, Ulysses S. Grant was a man who managed to end ...
Lewis Artillery Donaldsonville Artillery . Norfolk Light Huger Johnson's Battery . Hardaway Artillery . Danville 2d Rockbridge Artillery . Peedee Artillery . Fredericksburg Artillery . Letcher Purcell Battery .
A brief and simple biography of U. S. Grant
They had no corduroy roads to make , and I question if a corduroy road was made in the whole campaign . ” 7 Of all the courses that Grant took at West Point the one he liked best was his drawing class with Robert Weir ( page 78 ) ...
That night , on April 14 , 1865 , John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington , D.C. Already on his way to New Jersey to meet his family , Grant The day Lincoln was heard the news as he got off a ...
As soon as Bristow told Grant what he had discovered , the president assigned an investigator to get to the bottom of the scam . He was John McDonald , supervisor of the United States Internal Revenue Service Bureau in * “ One Honest ...
I can kick the hell out of Lee's cavalry out there at Dinwiddie Court House , if he comes out . Now , if I just had some infantry , I think I can turn his whole flank . And I can wrap up that railroad so he won't get another ounce of ...
In Ulysses S. Grant: Triumph over Adversity 1822–1865, historian Brooks D. Simpson takes neither approach, recognizing Grant as a complex and human figure with human faults, strengths, and motivations.