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Introduction. (pp. xvii-xxvi) https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvgd319.4. Prior to 1885, Ulysses S. Grant was a complete unknown as a writer. It is true that he wrote exceedingly clear orders while leading the U.S. Army to victory in the Civil War, but few Americans were aware of this talent.
My father, Jesse R. Grant, was the second child-oldest son, by the second marriage. Peter Grant went early to Maysville, Kentucky, where he was very prosperous, married, had a family of nine children, and was drowned at the mouth of the Kanawha River, Virginia [now West Virginia], in 1825, being at the time one of the wealthy men of the West.
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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.
What made the. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant. particularly appealing to readers was Grant’s humility about himself and his infrequent criticism of others. He wrote nothing about the rumors concerning his alleged drunkenness, the difculties of his life as a citizen just before the start of the Civil War, his rela.
16 ott 2017 · This is the first complete 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—including the antebellum era and the Mexican War—and his invaluable perspective on battlefield decision making.
7 ago 2020 · The Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant is an autobiography of Ulysses S. Grant, focused mainly on the general's actions during the American Civil War. Written as Grant was dying of throat cancer in 1885, the two-volume set was published by Mark Twain shortly after Grant's death.
