Grant would later try his hand at business a second time after he left the White House, with equally disastrous results. Louis street corners, and when the Civil War erupted, he was toiling away in obscurity at his family’s Galena, Illinois leather business. He once had to eke out a living by selling firewood on St. He was notoriously unlucky in business.Īfter spending a decade in the army and serving with distinction in the Mexican-American War, Grant resigned his post in 1854 and spent the next seven years flopping as a farmer, real estate agent and rent collector. “You know I have an “S” in my name and don’t know what it stands for.” 2. “Find some name beginning with “S” for me,” he joked in an 1844 letter to his future wife, Julia Dent. Despite Grant’s best efforts to correct the record, the name stuck, and he eventually accepted it as his own. Grant” when he nominated him to attend West Point. His phantom middle initial is the result of an error from Ohio Congressman Thomas Hamer, who accidentally wrote the future general’s name as “Ulysses S. The 'S' in Grant’s name didn’t stand for anything.Īlthough he was always known as “Ulysses” during his youth in Ohio, Grant’s given name was actually Hiram Ulysses Grant. Internally immaculate, no foxing whatsoever. With a small amount of cracking at the head of Vol. Full tan sheep, gilt titles on red and dark green spine labels.
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"Grant's memoirs comprise one of the most valuable writings by a military commander in history" (Eicher 492). "It seemed to Twain, sitting quietly near him in his bedroom at Sixtieth Street, that Grant had fully regained the stature of a hero" (Kaplan, 273). He completed the memoirs shortly before his death in the summer of 1885. Mark Twain agreed to serve as the publisher. As the successful Civil War general and less successful president was ruined by bankruptcy and dying of cancer, Grant agreed to publish his memoirs, which successfully assured his family's financial security. Profusely illustrated with portrait frontispieces, steel engravings, facsimiles, and 43 maps. Deluxe first edition in full sheep, of the memoirs of one of the most recognized figures in American military history.
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