![]() ![]() ![]() Originally, the offer for the memoirs came from The Century Magazine, a monthly illustrated periodical, which at the time was the country’s largest magazine. Moreover, the finances of the Grant family at the time necessitated something that would sustain an income after his death. ![]() Grant had been suffering from illness since early 1884. Grant only finished the writing of his memoirs a month before he died from cancer in 1885, and even then it was a close call. ![]() The thing is, we almost didn’t have them. Lee’s memoirs were never published in his lifetime, so Grant’s memoirs were the only written perspective from the top of either major army. Grant’s had the added benefit of his position during the war. There is a group of people who led the fight in the Civil War (from both sides) that wrote books that gave insightful and intriguing perspectives of the war. Grant was one of the most proclaimed books to come out of the post-Civil War era, and for good reason. That’s astounding considering we have writing and memoirs from such giants as Thomas Jefferson. Even more than 132 years later, the memoirs are considered some of the best writing by a former president to ever be published. For Civil War historians, there is no historical memoir more valued than that of Ulysses S. ![]()
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