TY - BOOK ED - DigiReads TI - The personal memoirs of U. S. Grant, Volume I and II SN - 9781420957938 (pbk.): U1 - 920 GRA PY - 2018/// CY - [no place of publication stated] PB - Digireads Publishing KW - GRANT U. S KW - GENERALS KW - UNITED STATES KW - BIOGRAPHY KW - PRESIDENTS KW - HISTORY KW - CIVIL WAR, 1861-1865 KW - CAMPAIGNS N2 - Faced with failing health and financial ruin, the Civil War's greatest general and former president wrote his personal memoirs to secure his family's future - and won himself a unique place in American letters. Devoted almost entirely to his life as a soldier, Grant's Memoirs traces the trajectory of his extraordinary career - from West Point cadet to general-in-chief of all Union armies. For their directness and clarity, his writings on war are without rival in American literature, and his autobiography deserves a place among the very best in the genre ER -