1 of Grant's "Personal Memoirs," is in POOR condition, having the normal wear and tear to the library cover surfaces one would expect of such an important book. Ex-library binding (green color) of a FIRST EDITION of Vol. Grant: Memoirs & Selected Letters is kept in print by a gift from Jack and Susan Rudin to the Guardians of American Letters Fund.Hardcover. The volume includes additional material added by the author in the expanded revised edition of 1886, including letters from readers and soldiers responding to, supplementing, and correcting the earlier edition.Įach Library of America series volume is printed on acid-free paper and features Smyth-sewn binding, a full cloth cover, and a ribbon marker. Sherman provides both vivid firsthand accounts of crucial events-Shiloh, Chattanooga, Vicksburg, the Atlanta campaign, the marches through Georgia and the Carolinas-and a complex self-portrait of an innovative and relentless American warrior. “War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it,” he wrote in fury to the Confederate mayor of Atlanta. Hailed as a prophet of modern warfare and condemned as a harbinger of modern barbarism, Sherman is the most controversial general of the Civil War. The volume includes 174 letters written by Grant from 1839 to 1865 many are to his wife, Julia, and offer an intimate portrait and others are to fellow-generals and government officials. Grant’s account of the Civil War combines a lucid treatment of its political causes and its military actions with the story of his own growing strength as a commander. Demonstrating his intense determination and trademark modesty, Grant’s autobiography is devoted almost entirely to his life as a soldier: his years at West Point, his service in the peacetime army, and his education in war during conflicts foreign and domestic. Grant was published with the encouragement and under the supervision of Mark Twain and acclaimed during the next century by readers as diverse as Matthew Arnold, Gertrude Stein, and Edmund Wilson. Written while he was battling cancer 20 years after the conclusion of the Civil War and completed just weeks before he died, Personal Memoirs of U. Annotated by distinguished historians and filled with detailed maps, battle plans, and facsimiles reproduced from the original editions, these companion volumes offer a unique vantage on the most terrible, moving, and inexhaustibly fascinating event in American history. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman evoke the Civil War with a vividness unparalleled in American writing.
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