Download or read book Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant (Barnes and Noble Library of Essential Reading) written by Ulysses S. Grant and published by Barnes & Noble Publishing. This book was released on 2003-10-06 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing his ancestry, Grant gives insight into the upbringing of a heralded military and political leader. On a broader scale, his first-person account of America?s armed forces outlines both civil and foreign insurrection. Grant wrote the two-volume Memoirs, published by Mark Twain, during his final battle? a battle against cancer that he would ultimately lose.