Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. GrantCosimo, Inc., 2006 M12 1 - 544 pages Completed 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. |
Contents
CHAPTER XLIII | 250 |
CHAPTER XLIV | 256 |
CHAPTER XLV | 261 |
CHAPTER XLVI | 268 |
CHAPTER XLVII | 275 |
COMMENCEMENT OF THE GRAND CAMPAIGNGENERAL BUTLERS | 284 |
CHAPTER L | 297 |
CHAPTER LI | 311 |
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CHAPTER XIX | 93 |
CHAPTER XX | 99 |
GENERAL HALLECK IN COMMANDCOMMANDING THE DISTRICT | 104 |
CHAPTER XXIII | 122 |
CHAPTER XXV | 137 |
CHAPTER XXVI | 144 |
HEADQUARTERS MOVED TO MEMPHISON THE ROAD | 150 |
CHAPTER XXVIII | 157 |
CHAPTER XXX | 165 |
CHAPTER XXXI | 171 |
CHAPTER XXXII | 178 |
ATTACK ON GRAND GULFOPERATIONS BELOW VICKSBURG 185190 | 185 |
CHAPTER XXXIV | 191 |
CHAPTER XXXVI | 206 |
CHAPTER XXXVIII | 217 |
CHAPTER XXXIX | 227 |
ASSUMING THE COMMAND AT CHATTANOOGAOPENING A LINE | 238 |
CHAPTER LII | 317 |
CHAPTER LIV | 328 |
ADVANCE ON COLD HARBORAN ANECDOTE OF THE WAR | 338 |
CHAPTER LVI | 345 |
CHAPTER LVII | 354 |
CHAPTER LVIII | 365 |
CHAPTER LIX | 372 |
CHAPTER LX | 385 |
SHERMANS MARCH NORTHSHERIDAN ORDERED TO LYNCH | 396 |
CHAPTER LXIII | 404 |
CHAPTER LXIV | 410 |
CHAPTER LXV | 417 |
CHAPTER LXVI | 424 |
CHAPTER LXVII | 430 |
MORALE OF THE TWO ARMIESRELATIVE CONDITIONS OF | 441 |
CHAPTER LXX | 452 |
CONCLUSION 458462 | 458 |
INDEX 506514 | 506 |
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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 363 - This, I think, is exactly right, as to how our forces should move. But please look over the despatches you may have received from here, even since you made that order, and discover, if you can, that there is any idea in the head of any one here, of " putting our army south of the enemy," or of "following him to the death
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.
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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.