Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S Grant

Written while he was dying of throat cancer after a controversial second term as President and a financially disastrous business venture, the Memoirs were intended to provide for Grant’s wife and family. They focus overwhelmingly on his military career in the Mexican War and the US Civil War. With a clear and concise style not always found in military memoirs, the book was both a critical and financial success and remains one of the key contemporary texts for understanding the Union conduct of the Civil War, especially in its second half.