The personal memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant : the complete annotated edition /
President Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885) was one of the most esteemed individuals of the nineteenth century. His two-volume memoirs, sold door-to-door by former Union soldiers, have never gone out of print and were once as ubiquitous in American households as the Bible. Mark Twain, Gertrude Stein, Mat...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2017.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover ; Frontispiece; Title Page ; Copyright ; Dedication ; Contents ; Preface by Frank J. Williams; Introduction; Editorial Procedure; Abbreviations; Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant; Preface; 1. Ancestry--Birth--Boyhood ; 2. West Point--Graduation ; 3. Army Life--Causes of the Mexican War--Camp Salubrity ; 4. Corpus Christi--Mexican Smuggling--Spanish Rule in Mexico--Supplying Transportation ; 5. Trip to Austin--Promotion to Full Second Lieutenant--Army of Occupation.
- 6. Advance of the Army--Crossing the Colorado--The Rio Grande 7. The Mexican War--The Battle of Palo Alto--The Battle of Resaca de la Palma--Army of Invasion--General Taylor--Movement on Camargo ; 8. Advance on Monterey--The Black Fort--The Battle of Monterey--Surrender of the City ; 9. Political Intrigue--Buena Vista--Movement against Vera Cruz--Siege and Capture of Vera Cruz ; 10. March to Jalapa--Battle of Cerro Gordo--Perote--Puebla--Scott and Taylor.
- 11. Advance on the City of Mexico--Battle of Contreras--Assault at Churubusco--Negotiations for Peace--Battle of Molino del Rey--Storming of Chapultepec--San Cosme--Evacuation of the City--Halls of the Montezumas 12. Promotion to First Lieutenant--Capture of the City of Mexico--The Army--Mexican Soldiers--Peace Negotiations ; 13. Treaty of Peace--Mexican Bull Fights--Regimental Quartermaster--Trip to Popocatapetl--Trip to the Caves of Mexico ; 14. Return of the Army--Marriage--Ordered to the Pacific Coast--Crossing the Isthmus--Arrival at San Francisco.
- 15. San Francisco--Early California Experiences--Life on the Pacific Coast--Promoted Captain--Flush Times in California 16. Resignation--Private Life--Life at Galena--The Coming Crisis ; 17. Outbreak of the Rebellion--Presiding at a Union Meeting--Mustering Officer of State Troops--Lyon at Camp Jackson--Services Tendered to the Government ; 18. Appointed Colonel of the 21st Illinois--Personnel of the Regiment--General Logan--March to Missouri--Movement against Harris at Florida, Mo
- General Pope in Command--Stationed at Mexico, Mo.
- 19. Commissioned Brigadier-General--Command at Ironton, Mo
- Jefferson City--Cape Girardeau--General Prentiss--Seizure of Paducah--Headquarters at Cairo 20. General Fremont in Command--Movement against Belmont--Battle of Belmont--A Narrow Escape--After the Battle ; 21. General Halleck in Command--Commanding the District of Cairo--Movement on Fort Henry--Capture of Fort Henry ; 22. Investment of Fort Donelson--The Naval Operations--Attack of the Enemy--Assaulting the Works--Surrender of the Fort.
- 23. Promoted Major-General of Volunteers--Unoccupied Territory--Advance upon Nashville--Situation of the Troops--Confederate Retreat--Relieved of the Command--Restored to the Command--General Smith.
