Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant (The Leather-Bound Library of Military History) [Ulysses]

xxv, 608 pp. 8vo. Brown full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, decorative endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Edited with notes and an introduction by E.B. Long. Includes color frontispiece ('On to Richmond' by Mort Kunstler), photograph of Grant as a young officer in the Mexican War, and eight campaign maps. The famous memoirs of the leader of the Union army during the American Civil War, including accounts of his boyhood and early career during the Mexican War. Mark Twain can be partially credited for the release of Grant's memoirs; Grant's health was ailing (he soon died of cancer), and Twain encouraged Grant to write them as a way to provide for his family after his death. The books were barely completed before Grant passed away, and were published posthumously.