Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant

By Ulysses S. Grant

Imprint: American Source Editions

Grant’s account follows his early life, service in Mexico, the Civil War, and the command decisions that shaped the conflict’s final campaigns.

First published
1885
Length
640 pages
Topics
Civil War, Military history, Memoir

About this edition

This reading edition preserves Grant’s direct prose while adding maps and a campaign chronology.

Source basis
Ulysses S. Grant’s 1885 memoir text.
Edition by
American Source Editions, Horn & Hickory

Contents

  1. Ancestry and Boyhood
  2. West Point and Mexico
  3. The Opening of the Civil War
  4. Vicksburg
  5. Virginia Campaigns