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See this item's eligibility during checkout.Parenting & Families | Home » » » The Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Vol 2. | | | | | | | Description: | | Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - Man proposes and God disposes. There are but few important events in the affairs of men brought about by their own choice. Although frequently urged by friends to write my memoirs I had determined never to do so, nor to write anything for publication. At the age of nearly sixty-two I received an injury from a fall, which confined me closely to the house while it did not apparently affect my general health. This made study a pleasant pastime. Shortly after, the rascality of a business partner developed itself by the announcement of a failure. This was followed soon after by universal depression of all securities, which seemed to threaten the extinction of a good part of the income still retained, and for which I am indebted to the kindly act of friends. At this juncture the editor of the Century Magazine asked me to write a few articles for him. I consented for the money it gave me; for at that moment I was living upon borrowed money. The work I found congenial, and I determined to continue it. The event is an important one for me, for good or evil; I hope for the former. | | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| U. S. Grant | | Hardcover:
| 576 pages | | Publisher:
| 1st World Library - Literary Society | | Publication Date:
| July 01, 2005 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 1421806754 | | Package Length:
| 8.6 inches | | Package Width:
| 5.7 inches | | Package Height:
| 1.8 inches | | Package Weight:
| 1.95 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
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Authentic but dryNov 25, 2004
U.S. Grant's second volume of his memoirs provide a detailed but dry, unemotional history of his efforts in the Civil War prior to his taking control of the Army of the Potomac and the entire US Army.
We get the details on the actual "unconditional surrender" memo that made him famous, inside scoop on Halleck's jealousy and busting then reinstating Grant, why he was frustrated with Rosencrantz, and why the Rebels lost Chattanooga, but we don't get the man's inner thoughts. We don't get his feelings, his insecurities, his pontificating or reflecting on war and death. The text is virtually devoid of any feeling whatsoever. It is not until the last third of the book when Grant utters his first emotional thought on the carnage at Vicksburg: "While a battle is raging, one can see his enemy mowed down by the thousand, or then ten thousand, with great composure; but after the battle, these scenes are distressing and one is naturally disposed to do as much to alleviate the suffering of an enemy as a friend."
This detachment is strange as Grant began writing this book shortly after being diagnosed with terminal throat cancer, so one would think he would have been extremely introspective and reflective at this time.
Finally, the reader should remember that Grant spent most of his Civil War career in the Western theatre of the war. So while you get first-hand account of operations in Tennessee and Mississippi, none of the book is devoted to the most publicized part of the war - the exploits of the Army of the Potomac and the Army of Northern Virginia. That's in Part 3.
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