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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Contents
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CHAPTER XIX | 93 |
CHAPTER XLV | 261 |
CHAPTER XLVI | 268 |
CHAPTER XLVII | 275 |
COMMENCEMENT OF THE GRAND CAMPAIGNGENERAL BUTLERS | 284 |
CHAPTER L | 297 |
CHAPTER LI | 311 |
CHAPTER LII | 317 |
CHAPTER LIV | 328 |
CHAPTER XX | 99 |
GENERAL HALLECK IN COMMANDCOMMANDING THE DISTRICT | 104 |
CHAPTER XXIII | 122 |
CHAPTER XXV | 137 |
CHAPTER XXVI | 144 |
HEADQUAHTEHS MOVED TO MEMPHISON THE ROAD | 150 |
CHAPTER XXVIII | 157 |
CHAPTER XXX | 165 |
CHAPTER XXXI | 171 |
CHAPTER XXXII | 178 |
ATTACK ON GRAND GULFOPEHATIONS BELOW VICKSBURG 185190 | 185 |
CHAPTER XXXIV | 191 |
BATTLE OF BLACK RIVER BRIDGECROSSING THE BIG BLACK | 206 |
CHAPTER XXXVIII | 217 |
CHAPTER XXXIX | 227 |
assuming the command at chattanoogaopening a line | 238 |
CHAPTER XLIII | 250 |
BATTLE OF CHATTANOOGAA GALLANT CHARGECOMPLETE | 256 |
ADVANCE ON COLD HARBORAN ANECDOTE OF THE WAR | 338 |
CHAPTER LVI | 345 |
CHAPTER LVII | 354 |
sheridans advancevisit to sherjdansheridans victory | 365 |
CHAPTER LIX | 372 |
CHAPTER LX | 385 |
SHERMANS MARCH NORTHSHERIDAN ORDERED TO LYNCH | 396 |
CHAPTER LXIIL | 404 |
CHAPTER LXIV | 410 |
CHAPTER LXV | 417 |
CHAPTER LXVI | 424 |
NEGOTIATIONS AT APPOMATTOXINTERVIEW WITH LEE | 430 |
CHAPTER LXVIII | 441 |
CHAPTER LXX | 452 |
CONCLUSION 458462 | 458 |
INDEX 506514 | 506 |
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Popular passages
Page 117 - 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 429 - 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 500 - 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 502 - 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 501 - 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 116 - 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 91 - 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 126 - 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 371 - 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 16 - 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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Grant and Lee at Appomattox: A Primary Source History of the End of the ... Gillian Houghton No preview available - 2004 |
Scarred by War: Civil War in Southeast Louisiana Christopher G. Peņa,Christopher G. Peena No preview available - 2004 |
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| Title | Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant |
| Author | Ulysses S. Grant |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Cosimo, Inc., 2007 |
| ISBN | 1602069182, 9781602069183 |
| Length | 544 pages |
| Subjects | › Biography & Autobiography / Military Biography & Autobiography / Presidents & Heads of State |
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