Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant

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Cosimo, Inc., Nov 1, 2007 - Biography & Autobiography - 544 pages
Completed 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.

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Contents

CHAPTER XLV
261
CHAPTER XLVI
268
CHAPTER XLVII
275
CHAPTER XLIX
289
CHAPTER L
297
CHAPTER LI
311
CHAPTER LII
317
CHAPTER LIV
328

GENERAL HALLECK IN COMMANDCOMMANDING THE DISTRICT
104
CHAPTER XXIII
122
CHAPTER XXV
137
CHAPTER XXVI
144
CHAPTER XXVIII
157
CHAPTER XXX
165
CHAPTER XXXI
171
CHAPTER XXXII
178
CHAPTER XXXIV
191
CHAPTER XXXVI
206
CHAPTER XXXVIII
217
CHAPTER XXXIX
227
CHAPTER XLII
243
CHAPTER XLIII
250
CHAPTER XLIV
256
CHAPTER LVI
345
CHAPTER LVII
354
CHAPTER LVIII
365
CHAPTER LIX
372
CHAPTER LX
385
CHAPTER LXIII
404
CHAPTER LXIV
410
CHAPTER LXV
417
CHAPTER LXVI
424
CHAPTER LXVII
430
CHAPTER LXIX
446
CHAPTER LXX
452
CONCLUSION 458462
458
INDEX 506514
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Page 118 - Yours of this date, proposing armistice and appointment of Commissioners to settle terms of capitulation, is just received. No terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works.
Page 430 - April 7, 1865. GENERAL: — I have received your note of this day. Though not entertaining the opinion you express on the hopelessness of further resistance on the part of the Army of Northern Virginia...
Page 501 - The result of the last week must convince you of the hopelessness of further resistance on the part of the Army of Northern Virginia in this struggle. I feel that it is so, and regard it as my duty to shift from myself the responsibility of any further effusion of blood, by asking of you the surrender of that portion of the Confederate States army known as the Army of Northern Virginia.
Page 503 - HEADQUARTERS ARMY op NORTHERN VIRGINIA, April 9, 1865. LIEUT.-GENERAL US GRANT, Commanding USA : GENERAL — I have received your letter of this date, containing the terms of surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia, as proposed by you. As they are substantially the same as those expressed in your letter of the 8th inst., they are accepted. I will proceed to designate the proper officers to carry the stipulations into effect.
Page 502 - I do not think the emergency has arisen to call for the surrender of this army ; but as the restoration of peace should be the sole object of all, I desired to know whether your proposals would lead to that end. I cannot, therefore, meet you with a view to surrender the Army of Northern Virginia ; but as far as your proposal may affect the...
Page 117 - SIR: — In consideration of all the circumstances governing the present situation of affairs at this station, I propose to the Commanding Officer of the Federal forces the appointment of Commissioners to agree upon terms of capitulation of the forces and fort under my command, and in that view suggest an armistice until 12 o'clock to-day. I am, sir, very respectfully, Your ob't seVt, SB BUCKNER, Brig. Gen. CSA To Brigadier-General US GRANT, Com 'ding US Forces, Near Fort Donelson.
Page 92 - It occurred to me at once that Harris had been as much afraid of me as I had been of him. This was a view of the question I had never taken before, but it was one I never forgot afterward.
Page 127 - Your neglect of repeated orders to report the strength of your command, has created great dissatisfaction, and seriously interfered with military plans. Your going to Nashville without authority, and when your presence with your troops was of the utmost importance, was a matter of very serious complaint at Washington, so much so that I was advised to arrest you on your return.
Page 372 - Having entered the army as a Major of Volunteers at the beginning of the war, General Hayes attained by meritorious service the rank of Brevet Major-General before its close. On the north side of the James River the enemy attacked Kautz's cavalry on the 7th of October, and drove it back with heavy loss in killed, wounded and prisoners, and the loss of all the artillery. This was followed up by an attack on our intrenched infantry line, but was repulsed with severe slaughter. On the 13th a reconnaissance...
Page 17 - For myself, I was bitterly opposed to the measure, and to this day regard the war, which resulted, as one of the most unjust ever waged by a stronger against a weaker nation.

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