General Grant's Letters to a Friend, 1861-1880 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Ulysses S. Grant

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1330842022 ISBN 13: 9781330842027

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2020

Synopsis

Excerpt from General Grant's Letters to a Friend, 1861-1880

All but three of the letters contained in this colleétion are of a striétly personal charaéter, the exceptions being Grant's official communi cations of January 23, 1862, November'13, 1863, and July 19, 1864, addressed to Mr. Washburne, Secretary Stanton, and President Lincoln. These were found among the Gen eral's two score and seven private letters. A por tion of these, relating to the war, appeared in the Life of Grant (great Commanders Series), while some of the others were published in the numbers of the North American Review, for July and August, 1897.

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Ulysses S. Grant was a successful military general and the eighteenth President of the United States. A graduate of the prestigious West Point military academy, Grant served in both the Mexican-American War (1846-1848) and the American Civil War (1861-1865), in which he was appointed commander of the Union Army. Grant's successful military campaign against the Confederate States, executed by Union Generals William Tecumseh Sherman, Philip Sheridan, and George Thomas, culminated in his acceptance of General Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox courthouse on April 9, 1865.

First elected President in 1869, Grant's two presidential terms focused on reconstruction, further stabilizing the nation socially, politically, and economically following the end of the Civil War. His government successfully passed the Fifteenth Amendment, protecting voting rights for Africa-American citizens, pursued an Indian peace policy and created the Board of Indian Commissioners, and shut down the Whiskey Ring, recovering over $3 million in embezzled federal taxes. Grant died of cancer in 1885 and is interred at New York's Riverside Park in Grant's Tomb.

Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2020
• ISBN 10: 1330842022
• ISBN 13: 9781330842027
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 149