Grant in Peace. from Appomattox to Mount McGregor. A Personal Memoir. [Ulysses S.]

591 pp. 8vo. Leather spine and corners, cloth boards, debossed gilt medallions on front and rear boards, gilt titles and decorations on spine, marbled edges and endpapers. Includes facsimiles of nine original letters and notes written to Grant and contemporaries. A biography by the Union officer who served on Grant's staff during the American Civil War. Badeau also wrote a three-volume history of Grant's military career, and assisted Grant in the editing of his own Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant. This work focuses on Grant's political and social involvements with such notable people as General Philip Sheridan, Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of State Hamilton Fish, and others.