Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant (eBook)

Ulysses Simpson Grant (Autor)

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2012
544 Seiten
Dover Publications (Verlag)
978-0-486-13103-0 (ISBN)

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Intelligent, deeply moving firsthand account of Civil War campaigns, considered by many the finest military memoirs ever written. Includes Grant's letters to his wife, photographs by Mathew Brady, maps, more.

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In 1854, after serving in the U.S. Army for 11 years, Ulysses Simpson Grant (1822-1885) resigned his commission and found himself out of a job and out of money. Over the next seven years he tried his hand at several occupations but succeeded in none. 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.Following 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. Suffering from terminal cancer, he hoped to secure his family’s financial future — at least in part — by publishing his memoirs. That remarkable work — considered by many authorities among the finest military memoirs ever written — is reprinted here, complete and unabridged.Concentrating primarily on Civil War military campaigns, Grant’s firsthand accounts of those campaigns offer students and historians an incomparable vantage point on the conflict. 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. Throughout, Grant displays a calm detachment, generosity, integrity, and intelligence that are deeply moving.The present volume reproduces the unabridged text, lengthy Appendix and all illustrations from the original two-volume edition published in 1885-86. The work is further enhanced by the addition of historic photographs by famed Civil War photographer Mathew Brady and others.In this affordably priced unabridged edition, Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant will be eagerly welcomed by students of American history and the legions of military enthusiasts and Civil War buffs.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.3.2012
• Reihe/Serie: Civil War
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Schlagworte: 1863 • 1864 • 1885 • Afghanistan • american civil • American History • american war • appomattox court • assassinated • autobiographies • battle descriptions • Battlefield • battle maps • brigadier general • Caesar • Charleston • Chattanooga • civil war battles • civil war history • Civil Wars • cold harbor • Command • commanders • commanding officer • company commander • Confederacy • confederate army • confederate generals • confederates • Connecticut • court house • fort donelson • frivolities • general-in-chief • Georgia • Grants • halleck • hand history • history buffs • Humble • killing lincoln • logical reason • logistics • Mark Twain • Mexican American • mexican-american war • mexican war • military buffs • military campaigns • military career • military genius • military history • military leaders • military memoirs • Mississippi River • New Jersey • Northern Virginia • Officers • Petersburg • Potomac • presidency • president grant • presidential autobiography • president johnson • president lincoln • quartermaster • reconstruction • Shiloh • southern generals • staff officer • Strategy • Tactics • Tecumseh Sherman • Texas • throat cancer • troop movements • troops • union army • union cavalry • union commander • union generals • union soldiers • union victory • United States • Unsaid • Vicksburg • vicksburg campaign • Virginia • Volume II • war battles • war buffs • war campaigns • War history • war operations • war stanton • Washington • welcher
• ISBN-10: 0-486-13103-3 / 0486131033
• ISBN-13: 978-0-486-13103-0 / 9780486131030