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Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant

By John Kirk

Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant Books

Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant

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By 1884 Ulysses S Grant, former President of the United States and greatest Union general of the Civil War, was both dying of cancer and so deeply in debt that he had been forced to put up his Civil War medals as security for personal loans. In that year he began to write his memoirs - an undertaking the modest Grant had always before resisted - in the hope that the resulting royalties might in some measure help to provide for his family after his death. They did so handsomely. Grant completed the manuscript a few days before he died on 23 July 1885 and when the work was published later that year it was an immediate bestseller, ultimately netting Grant's widow the then-enormous sum of $450,000. But the Memoirs were far more than just a commercial success. As the Columbia Encyclopedia now puts it, "Solid and unpolished as Grant himself, these memoirs rank among the great military narratives of history." The Memoirs cover only the first 43 years of Grant's life and deal mainly with the Civil War. Fast-paced, colorful, lucid and laced with flashes of humor, they provide the most authoritative of all contemporary accounts of such pivotal events as the taking of forts Henry and Donelson, the Battle of Shiloh, the Vicksburg and Chattanooga campaigns and Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House in 1865. Along the way, Grant finds time to give us some bluntly candid and occasionally devastating assessments of the character and abilities of political leaders and commanders on both sides of the lines.
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Number of Pages:
192
Release Date:
1995-12-01
Publication Date:
1995-12-01
Publisher:
Crescent Books
Languages:
Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:
0517140020
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