Personal memoirs of U.S. Grant. Volume II.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885.

Grant, Ulysses S.

Mexican War, 1846-1848--Personal narratives.

Mexican War, 1846-1848.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Campaigns.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (652 p.)

Place of Publication:

Scituate, Mass. : Digital Scanning, 1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This digital reproduction of the C.L. Webster Shoulder Board Set is Volume 2 of 2. The type has also been enlarged to create a large print edition. Born in 1822, Grant was the son of an Ohio tanner. He went to West Point reluctantly and graduated in the middle of his class. At the outbreak of the Civil War, Grant was appointed by the governor to command an unruly volunteer regiment, quickly rising to the rank of brigadier general of volunteers. In February 1862, he took Fort Henry and attacked Fort Donelson. When the Confederate commander asked for terms, Grant replied, No terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted.' The Confederates surrendered, and President Lincoln promoted Grant to major general of volunteers. At Shiloh in April, Grant fought one of the bloodiest battles in the West and came out less well. Lincoln fended off demands for his removal by saying, "I can't spare this man he fights". For his next major objective, Grant then maneuvered and fought skillfully to win Vicksburg, the key city on the Mississippi, cutting the Confederacy in two. Then he broke the Confederate hold on Chattanooga. Lincoln appointed him General-in-Chief in March 1864. Grant directed Sherman to drive through the South while he himself, with the Army of the Potomac, pinned down General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. Finally, on April 9, 1865, at Appomattox Court House, Lee surrendered. Grant wrote out magnanimous terms of surrender that would prevent treason trials. As President, Grant presided over the Government much as he had run the Army. Indeed he brought part of his Army staff to the White House. After retiring from the Presidency, Grant became a partner in a financial firm, which went bankrupt. About that time he learned that he had cancer of the throat. He started writing his recollections to pay off his debts and provide for his family, racing against death to produce these Memoirs. Soon after completing the last page, in 1885, he died.

Contents:

MEMOIRS OF U.S. GRANT VOL. II

CONTENTS

MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS

Lieutenant-General U.S. Grant

Map of Knoxville, Nashville and Charranooga

Map of Chattanooga and Vicinity

Map of the Battlefield of Chattanooga

Map of the Meridan Campaign

Map of Bermuda Hundred

Map of Sherman's Campaign, Chattanooga to Atlanta

Map Illustrating Siege of Atlanta

Map of Wilderness Campaign

Map of the Battle of the Wilderness

Map of the Country Between the Wilderness and Spottsylvania Court House

Map of the Battle of Spottsylvania

Map of the Battle of North Anna

Map of the Operations between the Pamunkey and the James Rivers

Map of Central Virginia

Map of the Battle of Cold Harbor

Map of Richmond

Map of the Shenandoan Valley Campaign

Map of Sherman's March to the Sea

Map of the Nashville Campaign South

Map of Fort Fisher

Map of Sherman's March North

Map of Petersburg and Five Forks

Map of the Appomattox Campaign

Map of Jetersville and Sailor's Creek

Map of High Bridge and Farmville

Map of Appomattox Court House

Fac-simile of the Original Terms of Lee's Surrender as Written by General Grant

Map of the Defences of the City of Mobile

Map of the Seat of the War

CHAPTER XL

First Meeting with Secretary Stanton

General Rosecrans

Commanding Military Division of Missipppi

Andrew Johnson's Address

Arrival at Chattanooga

CHAPTER XLI

Assuming the Command of Chattanooga

Opening a Line of Supplies

Battle of Wauhatchie

On the Picket Line

CHAPTER XLII

Condition of the Army

Rebuilding the Railroad

General Burnside's Situation

Orders for the Battle

Plans for the Attack

Hooker's Position

Sherman's Movements

CHAPTER XLIII

Preparing for Battle

Thomas carries the First Line of the Enemy

Sherman Carries Missionary Ridge.

Battle of Lookout Mountain

General Hooker's Fight

CHAPTER XLIV

Battle of Chattanooga

A Gallant Charge

Complete Rout of the Enemy

Pursuit of the Confederates

General Bragg

Remarks on Chattanooga

CHAPTER XLV

The Relief of Knoxville

Headquarters moved the Nashville

Visiting Knoxville

Cipher Dispatches

Withholding Orders

CHAPTER XLVI

Operations in Mississippi

Longstreet in East Tennessee

Commissioned Lieutenant-General

Commanding Armies of the United States

First Interview with President Lincoln

CHAPTER XLVII

The Military Situation

Plans for the Campaign

Sheridan Assigned to Command of the Cavalry

Flank Movements

Forest at Fort Pillow

General Banks's Expedition

Colonel Mosby

An Incident of the Wilderness Campaign

CHAPTER XLVIII

Commencement of the Grand Campaign

General Butler's Position

Sheridan's First Raid

CHAPTER XLIX

Sherman's Campaign in Georgia

The Seige of Atlanta

Death of General McPherson

Attempt to Capture Andersonville

Capture of Atlanta

CHAPTER L

Grand Movement of the Army of the Potomac

Crosing the Rapidan

Entering the Wilderness

Battle of the Wilderness

CHAPTER LI

After the Battle

Telegraph and Signal Service

Movement by the Left Flank

CHAPTER LII

Battle of Spottsylvania

Hancock's Position

Assault of Warren's and Wright's Corps

Upton Promoted on the Field

Good News from Butler and Sheridan

CHAPTER LIII

Hancock's Assault

Losses of the Confederates

Promotions Recommended

Discomfiture of the Enemy

Ewell's Attack

Reducing the Artillery

CHAPTER LIV

Battle of North Anna

An Incident on the March

Moving on Richmond

South of the Pamunkey

Position of the National Army

CHAPTER LV

Advance on Cold Harbour.

An Anecdote of the War

Battle of Cold Harbour

Correspondence with Lee

Retrospective

CHAPTER LVI

Left Flank Movement Across the Chickahominy and James

General Lee

Visit to Butler

The Movement on Petersburg

The Investment of Petersburg

CHAPTER LVII

Raid on the Virginia Central Railroad

Raid on the Weldon Railroad

Early's Movement Upon Washington

Mining the Work's Before Petersburg

Explosion of the Mine Before Petersburg

Campaign in the Shenandoah Valley

Capture of the Weldon Railroad

CHAPTER LVIII

Sheridan's Advance

Visit to Sheridan

Sheridan's Victory in the Shenandoah

Sheridan's Ride to Winchester

Close of the Campaign for the Winter

CHAPTER LIX

The Campaign in Georgia

Sherman's March to the Sea

War Anecdotes

The March on Savannah

Investment of Savannah

Capture of Savannah

CHAPTER LX

The Battle of Franklin

The Battle of Nashville

CHAPTER LXI

Expedition Against Fort Fisher

Attack on the Fort

Failure of the Expedition

Second Expedition Against the Fort

Capture of Fort Fisher

CHAPTER LXII

Sherman's March North

Sheridan Ordered to Lynchburg

Canby Ordered to Move Against Mobile

Movements of Schofield and Thomas

Capture of Columbia, South Carolina

Sherman in the Carolinas

CHAPTER LXIII

Arrival of the Peace Commissioners

Lincoln and the Peace Commissioners

An Anecdote of Lincoln

The Winter before Petersburg

Sheridan Destroys the Railroad

Gordon Carries the Picket Line

Park Recaptures the Line

The Battle of White Oak Road

CHAPTER LXIV

Interview with Sheridan

Sheridan's Advance on Five Forks

Battle of Five Forks

Parke and Wright Storm the Enemy's Line

Battles before Petersburg

CHAPTER LXV

The Capture of Petersburg.

Meeting President Lincoln in Petersburg

The Capture of Richmond

Pursuing the Enemy

Visit to Sheridan and Meade

CHAPTER LXVI

Battle of Sailor's Creek

Engagement at Farmville

Correspondence with General Lee

Sheridan Intercepts the Enemy

CHAPTER LXVII

Negotiations at Appomattox

Interview with Lee at McLean's House

The Terms of Surrender

Lee's Surrender

Interview with Lee after the Surrender

CHAPTER LXVIII

Morale of the Two Armies

Relative Conditions of the North and South

President Lincoln Visits Richmond

Arrival at Washington

President Lincoln's Assassination

President Jounson's Policy

CHAPTER LXIX

Sherman and Johnston

Johnston Surrenders to Sherman

Capture of Mobile

Wilson's Expedition

Capture of Jefferson Davis

General Thomas's Qualities

Estimate of General Canby

CHAPTER LXX

The End of the War

The March to Washington

One of Lincoln's Anecdotes

Grand Review at Washington

Characteristics of Lincoln and Stanton

Estimate the Different Corps Commanders

CONCLUSION

APPENDIX

INDEX.

Notes:

Originally published: Personal memoirs of U.S. Grant, in two volumes. New York: C.L. Webster & Co., 1886.

OCLC:

70773536