Personal memoirs of U.S. Grant

a modern abridgement

by Grant, Ulysses S.

Greenwich, Conn · Fawcett Publications Inc · 1962

Tracing his ancestry, Grant gives insight into the upbringing of a heralded military and political leader. On a broader scale, his first-person account of America’s armed forces outlines both civil and foreign insurrection.Grant wrote the two-volume Memoirs, published by Mark Twain, during his final battle – a battle against cancer that he would ultimately lose.