Ulysses S. Grant
Memoirs and Selected Letters
by Ulysses S. Grant
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appears in About War, Civil War, and History.
Twenty years after Appomattox, the Civil War?s greatest general fought his last campaign against death and time. Stricken by cancer as his family faced financial ruin, Ulysses S. Grant wrote his Personal Memoirs to secure their future, and in doing so won for himself a unique place in American letters. Acclaimed by readers as diverse as Mark Twain,...
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appears in About War, Civil War, and History.
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