TY - BOOK AU - Grant,Ulysses S. TI - Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant — Volume 2 AV - E660 PY - 2004/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Generals -- United States -- Biography KW - Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 KW - United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns KW - Mexican War, 1846-1848 -- Personal narratives KW - Presidents -- United States -- Biography KW - United States. Army -- Biography N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_Memoirs_of_U._S._Grant; Release date is 2004-06-01; Produced by Glen Bledsoe. Additional proofing by David Widger; Original publication data not identified N2 - "Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant — Volume 2" by Ulysses S. Grant is an autobiography written in 1884-1885. The work chronicles Grant's military career during the Mexican–American War and Civil War, written as the dying president battled terminal throat cancer and personal bankruptcy from a Ponzi scheme. Published by Mark Twain after Grant's death, the memoirs became a 19th-century bestseller through an unprecedented marketing campaign. Critics have praised Grant's lean, intelligent prose and his candid depiction of battlefield struggles and internal Army conflicts. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1068 ER -