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. |
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... killed that year . My grandfather , also named Noah , was then but nine years old . At the breaking out of the war of the Revolution , after the battles of Concord and Lexington , he went with a Connecticut company to join the ...
... killed that year . My grandfather , also named Noah , was then but nine years old . At the breaking out of the war of the Revolution , after the battles of Concord and Lexington , he went with a Connecticut company to join the ...
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... killed in West Virginia , in his first engagement . As far as I know , every boy who has entered West Point from that village since my time has been graduated . I took passage on a steamer at Ripley , Ohio , for Pittsburg , about the ...
... killed in West Virginia , in his first engagement . As far as I know , every boy who has entered West Point from that village since my time has been graduated . I took passage on a steamer at Ripley , Ohio , for Pittsburg , about the ...
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... killed , or even hurt , but no doubt the question of difference was settled satisfactorily , and “ honorably , " in ... kill him , I would not be willing to give him the choice of weapons with which it should be done , and of the time ...
... killed , or even hurt , but no doubt the question of difference was settled satisfactorily , and “ honorably , " in ... kill him , I would not be willing to give him the choice of weapons with which it should be done , and of the time ...
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... killed or driven away . This , with the massacre of the prisoners in the Alamo , San Antonio , about the same time , more than three hundred men in all , furnished the strongest justification the Texans had for carrying on the war with ...
... killed or driven away . This , with the massacre of the prisoners in the Alamo , San Antonio , about the same time , more than three hundred men in all , furnished the strongest justification the Texans had for carrying on the war with ...
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Ulysses S. Grant. afterwards killed in the valley of Mexico - Lieutenant , now General , Augur , and myself , concluded to spend their allotted time at San Antonio and return from there . We were all to be back at Corpus Christi by the ...
Ulysses S. Grant. afterwards killed in the valley of Mexico - Lieutenant , now General , Augur , and myself , concluded to spend their allotted time at San Antonio and return from there . We were all to be back at Corpus Christi by the ...
Contents
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CHAPTER XX | 99 |
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 | 506 |
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advance Appomattox army arrived artillery assault attack bank batteries battle believe bridge brigade Burkesville Burnside camp campaign captured cavalry Chattanooga City Point Colonel command commenced Confederate Corinth corps Creek crossing destroyed directed dispatch division Donelson east enemy enemy's engaged fighting fire flank followed force Fort Donelson Fort Fisher Fort Henry front garrison Grand Gulf guard guns Halleck Hancock headquarters horse hundred infantry intrenched Jackson James River Johnston latter Lee's loss Lynchburg Major-General McClernand McPherson Meade Memphis Mexican Mexico miles Missionary Ridge Mississippi Mississippi River morning move movement Nashville National night occupied officers Ohio ordered Petersburg position Potomac President prisoners railroad reached rear rebel received regiment reinforcements Richmond road Scott sent Sheridan Sherman side Smith soldiers soon steamer supplies surrender Tennessee Tennessee River thousand took troops U. S. GRANT valley Vicksburg Virginia wagons Washington West Point wounded
Popular passages
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.