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Consists largely of literary material drawn from General Grant's Personal memoirs.

An account of Grant's life and his role in the Civil War.

The Civil War's greatest general as you've never seen him before, in a revealing collection of letters to his wife Julia introduced by Ron Chernow. Ulysses S. Grant is justly celebrated as the author of one of the finest military autobiographies ever written, yet many readers of his Personal Memoirs are unaware that during his army years Grant wrote hundreds of intimate and revealing letters to his wife, Julia Dent Grant. Presented with an introduction...

Offers a fictionalized account of Ulysses S. Grant's experiences during the Civil War.

Describes how geography, luck, perserverance, a diplomacy between General Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant helped to change the course of history at the end of the Civil War.

Presents information about the personal and political turmoil in the career of the Civil War leader who became the eighteenth President.

Follows the military and political career of the general who became the "Hero of Appomattox" and the eighteenth president of the United States.

While Gettysburg is better known, Vicksburg was the more important battle from a strategic point of view according to the author, Winston Groom. Here he details the struggle by the Union to gain control of the Mississippi River valley and to divide the Confederacy in two. We see Grant's determination, the feistiness of William Tecumseh Sherman, and the pride and intransigence of Confederate leaders from Jefferson Davis and General Joseph E. Johnston...