Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume 2

Ulysses S. Grant was an outstanding military figure and the savior of the Union during the Civil War, as well as the 18th President of the United States. He was an author of unusual ability and his Memoirs are widely regarded. Born in 1822, Grant was the son of an Ohio tanner. A graduate of West Point, at the outbreak of the Civil War, he 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