Intelligent, deeply moving firsthand account of Civil War military campaigns by former U.S. President and key figure in the Union’s victory. Considered by many the finest military memoirs ever written, the volume offers students and historians an incomparable vantage point on that conflict. Includes Grant’s letters to his wife, historic photographs by Mathew Brady, maps of military campaigns and more.

The Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant is an autobiography of Ulysses Simpson. Grant, the 18th President of the United States, focused mainly on his military career during the Mexican-American War and the American Civil War. Written as Grant was dying of cancer in 1885, the two-volume set was published by Mark Twain shortly after Grant's death.

Ulysses Simpson. Grant April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885) was the 18th President of the United States (1869–1877). In 1865, as commanding general, Grant led the Union Armies to victory over the Confederacy in the American Civil War. He then implemented Congressional Reconstruction, often at odds with President Andrew Johnson. Twice elected president, Grant led the Republicans in their effort to remove the vestiges of Confederate nationalism and slavery, protect African-American citizenship, and defeat the Ku Klux Klan.