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Grant and Sherman: Civil War Memoirs

By Ulysses S. Grant

2019-02-22 00:04:02

For the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, The Library of America re-issues the memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman in a handsome, newly designed case. An ailing Grant wrote his Personal Memoirs to secure his family's future. In ... Read more
For the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, The Library of America re-issues the memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman in a handsome, newly designed case. An ailing Grant wrote his Personal Memoirs to secure his family's future. In doing so, the Civil War's greatest general won himself a unique place in American letters. John Keegan has called it "perhaps the most revelatory autobiography of high command to exist in any language." The Library of America's edition of Grant's Memoirs includes 175 of his letters to Lincoln, Sherman, and his wife, Julia, among others. Hailed as a prophet of modern war and condemned as a harbinger of modern barbarism, William T. Sherman is the most controversial general of the Civil War. "War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it," he wrote in fury to the Confederate mayor of Atlanta, and his memoir is filled with dozens of such wartime exchanges and a fascinating account of the famous march through Georgia and the Carolinas. Less

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File size553.09 KB
Print pages2335
PublisherPublic Domain Books
LanguageEnglish
ISBN978-1598531053
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Ulysses S. Grant
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Born in Point Pleasant, Ohio, The United States April 27, 1822 Died: July 23, 1885 Genre: Biographies & Memoirs, History, Politics Ulysses Simpson Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant) was general-in-...

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