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12 giu 2017 · This book contains the complete memoirs of the revered United States General and President, Ulysses S. Grant, including the original illustrations and maps. In Volume I, we learn of Grant's early life and education, his entry into the West Point military academy, and what influenced his views on life and the situation of the United States as a nation.
If you want a bargain priced version of Grant's memoirs limited to his civil war experience, then this is acceptable. However, there is neither index nor appendices. Also, although the back cover trumpets that the book contains his original maps of battles, and that's true, the maps are too small and too poorly reproduced to be of much value.
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- Ulysses S. Grant
Ulysses Simpson Grant, originally Hiram Ulysses Grant, in Civil War victoriously campaigned at Vicksburg from 1862 to 1863, and, made commander in chief of the Army in 1864, accepted the surrender of Robert Edward Lee, general, at Appomattox in 1865; widespread graft and corruption marred his two-term presidency, the eighteenth of the United States, from 1869 to 1877.
15 ott 2014 · The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant is the autobiography of American President Ulysses S. Grant, focused mainly on the general's actions during the American Civil War. Written as Grant was dying in 1885, the two-volume set was published by Mark Twain shortly after Grant's death. The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant has been highly ...
- Ulysses S. Grant
Lauded for its crisp and direct prose, Grant’s autobiography offers frank insight into everything from the merits of the war with Mexico to the strategies and tactics employed by Union forces against the Confederacy to the poignancy of Grant’s meeting with General Lee at Appomattox Court House.Beloved and bestselling since its publication in 1885, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant is a ...
16 gen 2013 · Patrick J. Garrity reassesses Ulysses S. Grant's "The Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant." “The most remarkable work of its kind since the Commentaries of Julius Caesar.”. So Mark Twain judged The Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant. Twain, to be sure, had a vested interest in offering such an endorsement. He was, after all, Grant’s friend and ...
The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant is the first comprehensively annotated edition of Grant's memoirs, fully representing the great military leader's thoughts on his life and times through the end of the Civil War and his invaluable perspective on battlefield decision making. An introduction contextualizes Grant's life and significance ...
