Simon, recommendations for further reading, and more than twenty photographs of the Grants, their children, and their friends. Sanfilippo, the original foreword by Bruce Catton, the original introduction by editor John Y. This forty-fifth-anniversary edition includes a new foreword by John F. Her book is a testament to their devoted marriage. She wanted posterity to share her pride in this man, whom she saw as one of America’s greatest heroes.

She also strives to correct misconceptions that were circulated about him. Throughout these memoirs, which she ends with her husband’s death, Grant seeks to introduce her descendants to both her and the man she loved. Her decision saved her husband’s life: like Lincoln, he too had been marked for assassination. Grant insisted she and her husband turn down an invitation to the theater. One recounts the night President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. Her anecdotes give fascinating glimpses into the years of the American Civil War. In addition to relating the joys she experienced, Grant tells about the difficult and sorrowful times. Louis County, Missouri, where she had an idyllic girlhood and later met Ulysses. She writes fondly of White Haven, a plantation in St. First Lady Julia Dent Grant wrote her reminiscences with the vivacity and charm she exhibited throughout her life, telling her story in the easy flow of an afternoon conversation with a close friend. With this autobiography, it is indisputable that he achieves this goal.Written in the early twentieth century for her children and grandchildren and first published in 1975, these eloquent memoirs detail the life of General Ulysses S. At the time he authored his memoirs in the mid-1880s, Grant was determined in spite of illness to add to the burgeoning historical narrative as a reliable source. Grant's own recollections we find appendices in the form of original correspondences sent and received regarding the Union and Confederate forces. Grant is keen to narrate the experience from his perspective as a junior officer, bringing perspective of both the strategic planning and the tactical maneuvers such conflicts entailed together with the morale of the rank and file ahead of each skirmish. Various battles such as Monterrey, and sieges such as Vera Cruz, are recounted in this volume, with Mexico's actions and abilities as an enemy much detailed. Civil War and the author's time as President of the United States. Grant's memoirs begins with the author's formative years and his military service, continuing through the U.S.

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