Read an electronic edition of Ulysses Grant's famous Personal Memoirs, a 19th-century bestseller. Battling terminal throat cancer, Grant raced to complete his account of the Civil War.

On page 931 of his 1,074-page biography of Ulysses S. Grant ... in the town of Moreau, where Grant spent the last weeks of his life finishing his memoirs. Kemp’s journey from believing to ...

In 1884 the firm went bankrupt. So did Ulysses S. Grant. Desperate for money, Grant turned to writing his wartime memoirs as a way to support his family. He began by selling short magazine ...

Perhaps no state did more to advance and propel the career of Ulysses S. Grant than Mississippi. Thus, it stands to reason that his memoirs are housed at Mississippi State – one of only six ...

Ulysses S. Grant continued the American tradition of electing military figures as presidents—those men who led and won key battles in war. Attempting to be apolitical, Grant campaigned on the ...

Ulysses S. Grant, first sentence, Memoirs. This story originally appeared on Talking Points Memo. Like our content? Follow us for more ...

An attempt to cut down on the illegal cotton trade, Grant’s decision, announced on this day in 1862, was immensely controversial and hounded him for years Eli Wizevich The Union general directly ...