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Author : Julia Dent Grant
Release : 1988-04-11
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 430/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant by : Julia Dent Grant
Download or read book The Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant written by Julia Dent Grant. This book was released on 1988-04-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The First Lady's account of experiences during her husband's military and political careers.
Author : John Y Simon
Release : 2016-09-06
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 956/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant by : John Y Simon
Download or read book The Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant written by John Y Simon. This book was released on 2016-09-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in the early twentieth century for her children and grandchildren and first published in 1975, these eloquent memoirs detail the life of General Ulysses S. Grant’s wife. First Lady Julia Dent Grant wrote her reminiscences with the vivacity and charm she exhibited throughout her life, telling her story in the easy flow of an afternoon conversation with a close friend. She writes fondly of White Haven, a plantation in St. Louis County, Missouri, where she had an idyllic girlhood and later met Ulysses. In addition to relating the joys she experienced, Grant tells about the difficult and sorrowful times. Her anecdotes give fascinating glimpses into the years of the American Civil War. One recounts the night President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. Grant insisted she and her husband turn down an invitation to the theater. Her decision saved her husband’s life: like Lincoln, he too had been marked for assassination. Throughout these memoirs, which she ends with her husband’s death, Grant seeks to introduce her descendants to both her and the man she loved. She also strives to correct misconceptions that were circulated about him. She wanted posterity to share her pride in this man, whom she saw as one of America’s greatest heroes. Her book is a testament to their devoted marriage. This forty-fifth-anniversary edition includes a new foreword by John F. Marszalek and Frank J. Williams, a new preface by Pamela K. Sanfilippo, the original foreword by Bruce Catton, the original introduction by editor John Y. Simon, recommendations for further reading, and more than twenty photographs of the Grants, their children, and their friends.
Author : Ulysses Simpson Grant
Release : 1885
Genre : Generals
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Book Synopsis Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant ... by : Ulysses Simpson Grant
Download or read book Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant ... written by Ulysses Simpson Grant. This book was released on 1885. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Julia Dent Grant
Release : 1975
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Book Synopsis The personal memoirs of Julia Dent Grant by : Julia Dent Grant
Download or read book The personal memoirs of Julia Dent Grant written by Julia Dent Grant. This book was released on 1975. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ulysses S. Grant
Release : 2018-10-16
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 900/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis My Dearest Julia: The Wartime Letters of Ulysses S. Grant to His Wife by : Ulysses S. Grant
Download or read book My Dearest Julia: The Wartime Letters of Ulysses S. Grant to His Wife written by Ulysses S. Grant. This book was released on 2018-10-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Civil War’s greatest general as you’ve never seen him before: A revealing collection of letters written by Ulysses S. Grant to his wife, Julia, perfect for American history buffs. Grant’s intimate reflections on the War in Mexico and the Civil War “[show] his remarkable evolution from an insecure young soldier to a capable, self-confident general” (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 by acclaimed biographer Ron Chernow, My Dearest Julia collects more than eighty of these letters, beginning with their engagement in 1844 and ending with the Union victory in 1865. They record Grant's first experience under fire in Mexico (“There is no great sport in having bullets flying about one in every direction but I find they have less horror when among them than when in anticipation”), the aching homesickness that led him to resign from the peacetime army, and his rapid rise to high command during the Civil War. Often written in haste, sometimes within the sound of gunfire, his wartime letters vividly capture the immediacy and uncertainty of the conflict. Grant initially hoped for an early conclusion to the fighting, but then came to accept that the war would have no easy end. “The world has never seen so bloody or so protracted a battle as the one being fought,” he wrote from Spotsylvania in 1864, “and I hope never will again.”
