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Ulysses S. Grant, the general who won the American Civil War and later served two terms as president, tells his life from his boyhood in Ohio and his…
Catalogue details
Author
Ulysses S. Grant
Category
Politics & Economics
Language
English
Source
Project Gutenberg
About this book
Ulysses S. Grant, the general who won the American Civil War and later served two terms as president, tells his life from his boyhood in Ohio and his reluctant years at West Point to the Mexican War, which he called one of the most unjust wars ever waged by a stronger nation against a weaker one, and then through the Civil War: the capture of Fort Donelson, the battle of Shiloh, the long siege of Vicksburg, the campaigns against Robert E. Lee in Virginia, and Lee's surrender at Appomattox in 1865.
Context and significance
Ruined by a fraudulent business partner and dying of throat cancer, Grant wrote the memoirs in 1884 and 1885 to provide for his family, and finished them only days before his death; Mark Twain published them, and they earned his widow a fortune. Their clear, modest prose has made them one of the most admired military memoirs ever written. For the war seen from the ranks, read The Red Badge of Courage.