![]() ![]() Instead, Grant gives the reader an inside account of the siege of Vicksburg, a battle of tremendous importance to the Union’s ultimate victory, which is often obscured because it ended on the same day as that more famous battle in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. There are no Bull Runs or Antietams here. Grant served in the West during the early years of the conflict. It is a perspective that differs from many military histories of the war. Grant then embarks on a gripping account of the Civil War from his own perspective. Instead, the words spill forth from the page and propel the reader through a brief description of his early life, his education at West Point, and his service in the war with Mexico. The writing does not suffer from Grant’s apparent haste. ![]() However, nearing the end of his life, and with his family’s financial security in doubt, Grant put forth a tremendous effort to tell the story of his military service. Grant had resolved not to write his memoirs. Moreover, Grant’s prose is clear and evocative, proving him to be a great writer,and the author of one of the finest examples of the military memoir. Most famous as a general, Grant’s life spans an important part of U.S. history, we should take time to reconsider one of the war’s most important figures, Ulysses S. As we look back on that momentous event in U.S. April 2015 marks the sesquicentennial of the end of the U.S. ![]()
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