Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant: Complete and Unabridged, Includes Appendix and All Original Maps and Illustrations

xxii, 514 pp. "Concentrating primarily on Civil War military campaigns, Grant's firsthand accounts of those campaigns offer students and historians an incomparable vantage point on the conflict. There are also excellent observations on the Mexican War and glimpses of Grants's personal life--boyhood, the years at West Point, his marriage to Julia Dent and more.The present volume reproduces the unabridged text, lengthy Appendix and all illustrations from the original two-volume edition published in 1885-86. The work is further enhanced by the addition of historic photographs by famed Civil War photographer Mathew Brady and others."