Features & Benefits
- Ulysses S. Grant led the Union to victory during the American Civil War.
- He became the eighteenth president of the United States after the war.
- Grant's Memoirs are a valuable primary source for understanding the American Civil War and the Reconstruction Era.
- He was the highest ranking general from either side of the conflict to write his memoirs.
- Grant's administration oversaw the rapid expansion of the United States into the western territories.
- His memoirs provide insights into significant historical events such as the completion of the first transcontinental railroad.