The following December Frederick inscribed this pre-publication copy of his father’s Memoirs seven days before “the first volume of the book was published on December 10, 1885” to Oliver Corse Hoyt, a prominent New York merchant and financier who served as a Presidential Elector in Grant’s 1872 re-election, casting “his vote for Grant. The extraordinary autobiography by U.S. Grant brings a first hand focus to the Civil War. The detail on the battles he fought and commanded are vivid and in his own words. I expect a true history major would digest each word and battle; I admit I moved past some of the dialogue as it was too detailed for me. Grant was the son of Jesse Root Grant, a tanner, and Hannah Simpson, and he grew up in Georgetown, Ohio. Detesting the work around the family tannery, Ulysses instead performed his share of chores on farmland owned by his father and developed considerable skill in handling horses.
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Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant by Ulysses S. Grant. Ulysses Simpson Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant was an American soldier and statesman who served as Commanding General of the Army and the 18th President of the United States, the highest positions in the military and the government of the United States. In preparing these volumes for the public, I have entered upon the task with the sincere desire to avoid doing injustice to any one, whether on the National or Confederate side, other than the unavoidable injustice of not making mention often where special mention is due. There must be many errors of omission in this work, because the subject is too large to be treated of in two volumes in such way as to do justice to all the officers and men engaged. There were thousands of instances, during the rebellion, of individual, company, regimental and brigade deeds of heroism which deserve special mention and are not here alluded to. The troops engaged in them will have to look to the detailed reports of their individual commanders for the full history of those deeds.