Washburne, provide a fascinating contemporary perspective on the events that would later figure in the Memoirs. Many of them are to his wife, Julia, and offer an intimate view of their affectionate and enduring marriage others, addressed to fellow generals, government officials, and his congressional patron Elihu B. This Library of America volume also includes 174 letters written by Grant from 1839 to 1865. Acclaimed by readers as diverse as Mark Twain, Matthew Arnold, Gertrude Stein, and Edmund Wilson, the Personal Memoirs demonstrates the intelligence, intense determination, and laconic modesty that made Grant the Union’s foremost commander.
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Grant wrote his Personal Memoirs to secure their future, and in doing so won for himself a unique place in American letters. Stricken by cancer as his family faced financial ruin, Ulysses S. Twenty years after Appomattox, the Civil War’s greatest general fought his last campaign against death and time.
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