Personal memoirsUlysses S. Grant
Personal memoirs
by Ulysses S. Grant · first published 1952
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The Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1, has an extended section, "About General Grant’s Memoirs"[1], describing Grant's financial particulars, at the end of his life. The "Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant"[2] cover his life through the end of the Civil War. It's a great read. [1]http://www.marktwainproject.org/xtf/view?docId=works/MTDP103... [2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_Memoirs_of_Ulysses_S....
on “The Reconstruction of Ulysses S. Grant” ↗The way I phrase it is "the fear of the thing is usually worse than the thing itself." In his Personal Memoirs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_Memoirs_of_Ulysses_S....), Ulysses S. Grant wrote of how he learned this lesson one of the first times he led troops into battle in the Civil War: I received orders…
on “Which Way Do You Run?” ↗Ulysses S. Grant mentioned this technology in his personal memoirs, in the context of his childhood. "I kept the horse until he was four years old, when he went blind, and I sold him for twenty dollars. When I went to Maysville to school, in 1836, at the age of fourteen,…
on “Horse-Powered Ferries in Nineteenth-Century America (1999)” ↗…Douglas also played a crucial role by tending to Grant’s medical needs and provided comfort during moments of great pain. Grant finished the Memoirs three days before his death on July 23, 1885. When "The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant" were published later that year, they became an instant best-seller. The first paycheck to his widow, Julia Dent Grant, was for $200,000, providing long-term financial stability to…
on “West Point discovers time capsule from 1828” ↗