Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant Volumes 1 and 2: Complete Civil War Memoir of Union General (Annotated)

Annotated ContentThis edition includes:A modern Historical Preface placing Grant's memoir in its full nineteenth-century contextA contemporary Foreword inviting today's reader into Grant's voice and methodA fresh Introduction surveying the full arc of both volumesGrant's original Author's Preface, written at Mount McGregor weeks before his deathAll seventy chapters and Grant's own closing Conclusion, in their original orderA reflective Final Endnote drawing the two volumes together for a contemporary audienceA modern Author Biography of Ulysses S. GrantThe complete unabridged text of both volumes, originally published in 1885 and 1886Sneak Peek"I felt sad and depressed at the downfall of a foe who had fought so long and valiantly, and had suffered so much for a cause, though that cause was, I believe, one of the worst for which a people ever fought."IntroductionWhat does it cost a man to win the bloodiest war in his country's history, and what does he have left to say about it on the way out the door?SynopsisPersonal Memoirs of U. S. Grant is the autobiography of the Union general who ended the American Civil War, written in the final thirteen months of his life as throat cancer closed in and bankruptcy threatened to leave his family with nothing. Volume 1 traces the long apprenticeship: a quiet Ohio boyhood, West Point, the Mexican War, the lean civilian years of failure, and the early Western campaigns that culminated at Vicksburg in July 1863. Volume 2 carries the story from Chattanooga through Grant's elevation to lieutenant general, the long bloody overland campaign, the siege of Petersburg, Sheridan in the Shenandoah, Sherman's march through Georgia, the parlor at Appomattox, and the assassination of Lincoln. Read straight through, the two volumes form one of the great American autobiographies and the only first-person account of the war from the man who actually won it. Grant writes without ornament, without self-pity, and with a steady moral clarity that has held up for one hundred and forty years. Edmund Wilson ranked the work with the finest American prose ever written. Generations of soldiers have studied it as a working manual on leadership.A Stunning ReprintA clean, modern, easy-to-read edition of one of America's most enduring memoirs, designed for the general reader rather than the academic seminar. Most reprints of Grant's memoirs come buried under footnotes and surrounded by hundreds of pages of scholarly apparatus. This edition takes the opposite approach. We have set both volumes in clear, readable Garamond, removed every interrupting footnote, and let Grant's prose do what it has always done best — speak for itself. The result is the full experience of one of the great American autobiographies, presented the way its first audience read it: straight through, on quiet evenings, with nothing standing between you and the voice on the page. Printed on cream paper with a matte cover, this volume is a handsome addition to any home library and an outstanding gift for the reader of history in your life. Click Add to Cart now.Title DetailsOriginal publication: Volume 1 in December 1885, Volume 2 in March 1886Author: Ulysses S. Grant (1822–1885)Genre: American History / Civil War / Presidential Memoirs / AutobiographyFormat: Both volumes complete in one paperback, approximately 595 pagesTrim size: 6 × 9 inchesMatte CoverCream Paper Read more