Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant by E.B. Long

Grant the tactician, the victim of his friends, the alcoholic, the plain and tough professional soldier, the ideal commander - all of these images are brightened in the work of Grant the writer as he assesses himself and the events that forged his character. Then began the rebellion that broke the Union and recast Grant's fortune: the capture of Fort Henry and Fort Donelson, the battles of Shiloh, Corinth, Appomattox, Five Forks, Sailor's Creek, Vicksburg and Lookout Mountain, the bloody Wilderness campaign, Sherman's 'March to the Sea,'. 306810611 eBay Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Personal Memoirs of U. Grant, the 18th President of the United States, focused mainly on his military career during the MexicanAmerican War and the American Civil War, and completed as he was dying of throat cancer in 1885. Grant, Complete: (Kindle Edition published in 2021), (Kindle Edition published in 2021), (Kindle Edition published. Unquestionably, it is the finest literary achievement by any American president, the frankest, least pretentious, most nearly tragic account we have of the failings and triumphs of leadership.Written as Grant was dying of cancer, it tells the straightforward story of his boyhood in Ohio, graduation from West Point, and the grimy military campaigns in the West and Mexico that ended with his resignation in disgrace and a return to Galena where he ran the family store. Mark Twain called it 'the best of any general's since Caesar.' And few historians would disagree. Washburne (page images at HathiTrust US access only) X-Info. Among the autobiographies of generals and statesmen, the Personal Memoirs of U.S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885: Personal Memoirs of U.S.

Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant by E.B. Long