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Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant Volume 2/2: Large Print Edition

by Ulysses S. Grant

Grant’s Civil War campaigns

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Grant’s Civil War campaigns

This second volume of Grant’s unabridged memoirs centers on his rise from command of a volunteer regiment to major Union victories in the Western theater. The supplied description traces the campaigns at Fort Henry and Fort Donelson, the costly battle of Shiloh, and the maneuvering that led to Vicksburg, a strategic Mississippi River city. Its scope makes the volume useful for following Grant’s account of military leadership and the changing course of the Civil War in the West. This edition is identified as large print and hardcover.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in Ulysses S. Grant’s own account of his Civil War service.
  • Readers studying nineteenth-century U.S. history, especially the Western theater of the Civil War.
  • Readers seeking an unabridged large-print edition of the memoir’s second volume.

Themes

Military leadershipCivil War campaignsUnion strategy in the Western theaterNineteenth-century U.S. history

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Book overview

Born in 1822, Grant was the son of an Ohio tanner. He went to West Point rather against his will and graduated in the middle of his class. At the outbreak of the Civil War, Grant was appointed by the governor to command an unruly volunteer regiment, quickly rising to the rank of brigadier general of volunteers. In February 1862, he took Fort Henry and attacked Fort Donelson. When the Confederate commander asked for terms, Grant replied, "No terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted." The Confederates surrendered, and President Lincoln promoted Grant to major general of volunteers. At Shiloh in April, Grant fought one of the bloodiest battles in the West and came out less well. Lincoln fended off demands for his removal by saying, "I can't spare this man--he fights." For his next major objective, Grant then maneuvered and fought skillfully to win Vicksburg, the key city on the Mississippi, cutting the Confederacy in two. ISBN for Volume 1 is 9781582188577

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