Published by New Albion Press

eBook Summary:
History has given us Ulysses S. Grant the brilliant military commander and hero of the American Civil War, but few people now living know the self-effacing, down-to-earth man who wrote these memoirs of his military career - one of the greatest war memoirs ever composed - as he was dying of cancer, in hopes of keeping his family from poverty after his death.

Volume One follows Grant from his small-town childhood to four lonely and difficult years at West Point; through courageous service as a young lieutenant in a war he hated, but during which he was nonetheless twice cited for bravery in combat. It tells of his retirement from military life and his re-enlistment at the opening of the War Between the States, and continues to the end of the brilliant Western Campaign that saw him noticed by both the press and the president as a brave and able general.

This New Albion Press edition is illustrated with 22 photographs of the U.S. Civil War era, and can be annotated, searched, and highlighted by the reader.