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Grant's Final Victory: Ulysses S. Grant's Heroic Last Year

Grant's Final Victory: Ulysses S. Grant's Heroic Last Year

Flood, Charles Bracelen

Paperback

Historical FiguresPresidents & Heads of State19th Century United States History

ISBN10: 0306821516
ISBN13: 9780306821516
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: Oct 1 2012
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Shortly after losing all of his wealth in a terrible 1884 swindle, Ulysses S. Grant learned he had terminal throat and mouth cancer. Destitute and dying, Grant began to write his memoirs to save his family from permanent financial ruin.

As Grant continued his work, suffering increasing pain, the American public became aware of this race between Grant's writing and his fatal illness. Twenty years after his respectful and magnanimous demeanor toward Robert E. Lee at Appomattox, people in both the North and the South came to know Grant as the brave, honest man he was, now using his famous determination in this final effort. Grant finished Memoirs just four days before he died in July 1885.

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