Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. GrantCompleted just days before his death and hailed by Mark Twain as "the most remarkable work of its kind since the Commentaries of Julius Caesar," this is the now-legendary autobiography of ULYSSES SIMPSON GRANT (1822-1885), 18th president of the United States and the Union general who led the North to victory in the Civil War. Though Grant opens with tales of his boyhood, his education at West Point, and his early military career in the Mexican-American war of the 1840s, it is Grant's intimate observations on the conduct of the Civil War, which make up the bulk of the work, that have made this required reading for history students, military strategists, and Civil War buffs alike. This unabridged edition features all the material that was originally published in two volumes in 1885 and 1886, including maps, illustrations, and the text of Grant's July 1865 report to Washington on the state of the armies under his command. |
Contents
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CHAPTER X | 45 |
CHAPTER XII | 58 |
CHAPTER XLIII | 250 |
CHAPTER XLIV | 256 |
CHAPTER XLV | 261 |
CHAPTER XLVI | 268 |
CHAPTER XLVII | 275 |
COMMENCEMENT OF THE GRAND CAMPAIGNGENERAL BUTLERS | 284 |
CHAPTER L | 297 |
CHAPTER LI | 311 |
RETURN OF THE ARMYMARRIAGEORDERED TO THE PACIFIC | 69 |
CHAPTER XVI | 76 |
CHAPTER XVII | 83 |
CHAPTER XIX | 93 |
CHAPTER XX | 99 |
GENERAL HALLECK IN COMMANDCOMMANDING THE DISTRICT | 104 |
CHAPTER XXIII | 122 |
CHAPTER XXV | 137 |
CHAPTER XXVI | 144 |
HEADQUARTERS MOVED TO MEMPHISON THE ROAD | 150 |
CHAPTER XXVIII | 157 |
CHAPTER XXX | 165 |
CHAPTER XXXI | 171 |
CHAPTER XXXII | 178 |
ATTACK ON GRAND GULFOPERATIONS BELOW VICKSBURG 185190 | 185 |
CHAPTER XXXIV | 191 |
CHAPTER XXXVI | 206 |
CHAPTER XXXVIII | 217 |
CHAPTER XXXIX | 227 |
ASSUMING THE COMMAND AT CHATTANOOGAOPENING A LINE | 238 |
CHAPTER LII | 317 |
CHAPTER LIV | 328 |
ADVANCE ON COLD HARBORAN ANECDOTE OF THE WAR | 338 |
CHAPTER LVI | 345 |
CHAPTER LVII | 354 |
CHAPTER LVIII | 365 |
CHAPTER LIX | 372 |
CHAPTER LX | 385 |
SHERMANS MARCH NORTHSHERIDAN ORDERED TO LYNCH | 396 |
CHAPTER LXIII | 404 |
CHAPTER LXIV | 410 |
CHAPTER LXV | 417 |
CHAPTER LXVI | 424 |
CHAPTER LXVII | 430 |
MORALE OF THE TWO ARMIESRELATIVE CONDITIONS OF | 441 |
CHAPTER LXX | 452 |
CONCLUSION 458462 | 458 |
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