Yet a judiciously annotated edition of these memoirs has never been produced until now. Bush, credit Grant with influencing their own writing. Mark Twain, Gertrude Stein, Henry James, and Edmund Wilson hailed them as great literature, and countless presidents, including Clinton and George W. Grant’s memoirs, sold door-to-door by former Union soldiers, were once as ubiquitous in American households as the Bible. The book is deeply researched, but it introduces its scholarship with a light touch that never interferes with the reader’s enjoyment of Grant’s fluent narrative.”-Ron Chernow, author of Grant Grant will be eagerly welcomed by students of American history and the legions of military enthusiasts and Civil War buffs.“This fine volume leaps straight onto the roster of essential reading for anyone even vaguely interested in Grant and the Civil War. In this affordably priced unabridged edition, Personal Memoirs of U. The work is further enhanced by the addition of historic photographs by famed Civil War photographer Mathew Brady and others. The present volume reproduces the unabridged text, lengthy Appendix and all illustrations from the original two-volume edition published in 1885-86. Throughout, Grant displays a calm detachment, generosity, integrity, and intelligence that are deeply moving. There are also excellent observations of the Mexican War and glimpses of Grant’s personal life - boyhood, the years at West Point, his marriage to Julia Dent, and more. That remarkable work - considered by many authorities among the finest military memoirs ever written - is reprinted here, complete and unabridged.Ĭoncentrating primarily on Civil War military campaigns, Grant’s firsthand accounts of those campaigns offer students and historians an incomparable vantage point on the conflict. Suffering from terminal cancer, he hoped to secure his family’s financial future - at least in part - by publishing his memoirs. Only the outbreak of the Civil War and Grant’s eventual command of the Union Army provided the opportunity to display the military brilliance for which he would best be remembered.įollowing the war and two scandal-ridden terms as President of the United States, Grant again fell on hard times after involvement in some disastrous business dealings. Over the next seven years he tried his hand at several occupations but succeeded in none.
Army for 11 years, Ulysses Simpson Grant (1822-1885) resigned his commission and found himself out of a job and out of money.
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