8 VOL ✅ CIVIL WAR MEMOIRS OF GRANT_SHERMAN_SHERIDAN_MCCLELLAN_HANCOCK_UNION CSA

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Title:
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Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant
Author
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Ulysses. S. Grant
Published
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- NY,
Charles L. Webster & Co
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1892 & '86
Binding:
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original hardcover with floral
endpapers and gilt
Size:
apx. 9.25 " by 6.5"  w/ 584 & 647 pages
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Title:
Personal Memoirs of Sheridan
Author
:
P. H. Sheridan
Published
:
NY,
Charles L. Webster & Co
,
1888 -
1st editions!
Binding:
original hardcover with floral
endpapers and gilt
Size:
apx. 9.25 " by 6.5"  w/ 500 & 486 pages
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Title:
Personal Memoirs of Sherman
Author
:
Sherman
Published
:
NY,
Charles L. Webster & Co
,
1890
Binding:
original hardcover with floral
endpapers and gilt
Size:
apx. 9.25 " by 6.5"  w/ 455 & 570 pages
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Title:
McClellan's Own Story
Author
:
George McClellan
Published
:
NY,
Charles L. Webster & Co
,
1887
Binding:
original pictorial  hardcover with floral
endpapers
and gilt lettering and deco
Size:
apx. 9.25 " by 6.5"  with 678 pages
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This book is VERY RARE!!.........
Title:
Reminiscences of Winfield Scott Hancock
Author
:
Almira Russell Hancock [his wife]
Published
:
NY, Charles L. Webster & Co.
1887
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1st edition
Binding:
- pictorial hardcover with gilt lettering, boards with beveled edges, floral endpapers
Size:
apx. 9.25" by 6.25"  with 340  pages
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. all of my books are VERY OLD and have 100+ years of wear to varying degrees
very good plus condition.... for their age:
boards -
very secure, a few wrinkles to one of Sheridan's / some very light and small spots to Grant's covers along with a discoloration -triangle shape- to his vol 2 [ see pictures 4 and 5]
textblock
- pages very secure, One of Grant's vol is slightly cracked and the pages in this area are a little stiff to open. [pict 11]
outer joints
-  all excellent
spine ends
- very good, very light wear
tips
- very good to excellent / Sheridan's vol 2 slight bump upper right front tip [pict 6]
inner hinges
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most are perfect
except - Grant's front of vol. 1 [vol 2's front not too bad, but not perfect] and Sheridan's front of vol. 1 / both hinges in vol. 2 of Sheridan are good, but not perfect
// shown in pictures are the fronts of Grant vol 1 and Sheridan vol. 1- these 2 were the worse
pages
- very, very clean - only few small spots / small stains to Grant's 2 frontis pictures [ both shown] and a thin line to one of his rear free end papers
writing
- long inscription on the ffpe of McClellan / " Chas Pothwell" on Grant's ffep/ name & date on Sheridan's half title page [not the true title page]
rips /folds
- apx 8
very small
rips in the whole set! [3 of these on one of Grant's fold outs] / no folds that I saw
/ the tiniest chip to the bottom tip of Grant's half title page vol. 2
other:
- the fold outs are in excellent condition with the exception of the yellow fold out in Grant- it has some extra folds bottom edge and 3 small rips [last picture] - his other fold out is in very nice condition
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Contents
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The
Personal
Memoirs of U. S. Grant
has been
highly regarded
by the general public, military historians,
and literary critics.
Positive attention is often directed toward Grant's prose, which has been praised as shrewd, intelligent, and effective. He portrayed himself in the persona of the honorable Western hero, whose strength lies in his honesty and straightforwardness. He candidly depicts his battles against both the external Confederates and his internal Army foes.
The Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant is an autobiography by Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th President of the United States, focused mainly on his military career during the Mexican American War and the American Civil War. It
provides a personal and poignant record of some of the most significant events in American history.
In 1881 he went into partnership with his son and Ferdinand Ward; Ward used the incoming money as a
Ponzi scheme and, in 1884, the business failed
leaving Grant penniless.
That fall, the former president was diagnosed with terminal throat cancer. Facing his mortality, Grant struck a publishing deal with his friend Mark twain
for his memoirs, hoping that they would provide for his family after his death.
Grant suffered greatly in his final year. He was in constant pain from his illness and sometimes had the feeling that he was choking. Despite his condition, he wrote at a furious pace, sometimes finishing 25 to 50 pages a day.
The cancer spread through his body, so the family moved to Mount MacGregor, NY, in June 1885 to make him more comfortable. He worked at finishing the book, propped up on chairs and too weak to walk. Friends, admirers, and even a few former Confederate opponents made their way to Mount MacGregor to pay their respects.
Grant finished the manuscript on July 18....
he died five days later.
The two-volume set was published by Mark Twain shortly after Grant's death.
Twain created a unique marketing system designed to reach millions of veterans with a patriotic appeal just as Grant's death was being mourned. Ten thousand agents canvassed the North, following a script that Twain had devised; many were veterans who dressed in their old uniforms. They sold 350,000 two-volume sets at prices from .50 to , depending on the binding (roughly 0 to 0 in 2019). Each copy contained what looked like a handwritten note from Grant himself.
In the end, Grant's widow, Julia, received about 0,000 (,805,000 in 2019)!!
from wiki: Ulysses S. Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant; April, 1822 - July, 1885)
was the 18th President of the United States (1869-1877) following his highly successful role as a war general in the second half of the Civil War.
Under Grant, the Union Army defeated the Confederate military
; having effectively ended the war and secession
with the surrender of Robert E. Lee's army at Appomattox
. As president he led the Radical Republicans in their effort to eliminate all vestiges of Confederate nationalism and slavery. Upset over uncontrolled violence in the South,
President Grant effectively destroyed the Ku Klux Klan in 1871.
Grant believed in the protection of African American voting and civil rights.
His reputation was marred by his repeated defense of corrupt appointees, and by the deep economic depression (called the "Panic of 1873") that dominated his second term. Although his Republican Party split in 1872 with reformers denouncing him, Grant was easily re-elected. By 1875 the conservative white Southern opposition regained control of every state in the South and as he left the White House in March 1877 his policies were being undone. Reconstruction ended on a note of failure as the civil rights of blacks did not remain secure. Grant, however, after the controversial Presidential election of 1876, through a series of military deployments, secured the South from succession.
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Philip Henry Sheridan
(1831-
1888) was a career United States Army officer and a Union general in the American Civil War. His career was noted for his rapid rise to major general and his close association with General-in-chief
Ulysses S. Grant
, who transferred Sheridan from command of an infantry division in the Western Theater to lead the Cavalry Corps of the Army of the Potomac in the East. In 1864, he defeated Confederate forces under General Jubal Early in the Shenandoah Valley and his destruction of the economic infrastructure of
the Valley, called
"The Burning"
by residents, was one of the
first uses of scorched-earth tactics in the war.
In 1865, his cavalry pursued Gen. Robert E. Lee and was
instrumental in forcing his surrender at Appomattox.
Sheridan fought in later years in the Indian Wars of the Great Plains. Both as a soldier and private citizen, he was instrumental in the development and protection of Yellowstone National Park. In 1883, Sheridan was appointed general-in-chief of the U.S. Army, and in 1888 he was promoted to the rank of General of the Army during the term of President Grover Cleveland.
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William Tecumseh Sherman
(1820-1891) was an American soldier, businessman, educator, and author. He served as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War, achieving recognition for his command of military strategy as well as criticism for the harshness of the scorched earth policies that he implemented against the Confederate States.
Stationed in Kentucky, this pessimism about the outlook of the war led to a nervous breakdown that required him to be briefly put on leave. He recovered by forging a close partnership with
General Ulysses S. Grant.
Sherman served under Grant in 1862 and 1863 in the battles of forts Henry and Donelson, the
Battle of Shiloh
, the campaigns that led to the fall of the Confederate stronghold of Vicksburg on the Mississippi River, as well as the Chattanooga campaign that culminated with the routing of the Confederate armies in the state of Tennessee.
In 1864, Sherman succeeded Grant as the Union commander in the Western Theater. He led the capture of the strategic city of Atlanta, a military success that contributed to the re-election of President Abraham Lincoln. Sherman's subsequent march through Georgia and the Carolinas involved little fighting but
large-scale destruction of cotton plantations
and other infrastructure, a systematic policy intended to undermine the ability and willingness of the Confederacy to continue fighting.
Sherman accepted the surrender of all the Confederate armies in the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida
in April 1865, but the terms that he negotiated were considered too generous by US Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, who ordered General Grant to modify them.
When Grant became president of the United States in March 1869, Sherman succeeded him as Commanding General of the Army. Sherman served in that capacity from 1869 until 1883 and
was responsible for the U.S. Army's engagement in the Indian Wars.
He steadfastly refused to be drawn into party politics and
in 1875 published his memoirs, which became one of the best-known first-hand accounts of the Civil War.
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George Brinton McClellan
(1826 – 1885) was an American soldier, Civil War Union general, civil engineer, railroad executive, and politician who served as the 24th Governor of New Jersey. A graduate of West Point, McClellan served with distinction during the Mexican–American War (1846–1848), and later left the Army to work on railroads until the outbreak of the American Civil War. Early in the conflict, McClellan was appointed to the rank of major general and played an important role in raising a well-trained and organized army, which would become the Army of the Potomac in the Eastern Theater; he served a brief period (November 1861 to March 1862) as Commanding General of the United States Army of the Union Army.
General McClellan and President Abraham Lincoln developed a mutual distrust, and
McClellan was privately derisive of Lincoln
. McClellan was removed from command in November in the aftermath of the 1862 midterm elections. A major contributing factor in this decision was McClellan's failure to pursue Lee's Army following the tactically inconclusive but strategic Union victory at the Battle of Antietam outside Sharpsburg, Maryland.
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Winfield Scott Hancock
was a United States Army officer and the Democratic nominee for President of the United States in 1880. He served with distinction in the Army for four decades, including service in the
Mexican American War
and as a Union general in the
American Civil War
.
Known to his Army colleagues as "Hancock the Superb".
He earned his "Superb" nickname in the Peninsula Campaign, in 1862, by leading a critical counterattack in the
Battle of Williamsburg
; army commander Maj. Gen. George B.
McClellan
telegraphed to Washington that "Hancock was superb today" and the appellation stuck. McClellan did not follow through on Hancock's initiative, however, and Confederate forces were allowed to withdraw unmolested.
He was
noted in particular for his personal leadership at the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863.
In the Battle of Antietam, Hancock assumed command of the 1st Division, II Corps, following the mortal wounding of Maj. Gen. Israel B. Richardson in the
horrific fighting at "Bloody Lane"
. Hancock and his staff made a dramatic entrance to the battlefield, galloping between his troops and the enemy, parallel to the Sunken Road. His men assumed that Hancock would order counterattacks against the exhausted Confederates, but he carried orders from McClellan to hold his position. He was also in the Battle of Fredericksburg and the Battle of Chancellorsville where he was wounded for the 2nd time.
His military service continued after the Civil War, as Hancock participated in the military Reconstruction of the South and the Army's presence at the Western frontier.
Hancock's reputation as a war hero at Gettysburg, combined with his status as a Unionist and supporter of states' rights, made him a potential presidential candidate. When the Democrats nominated him for President in 1880, he ran a strong campaign, but was narrowly defeated by Republican James A. Garfield. Hancock's last public service involved the oversight of President Ulysses S. Grant's funeral procession in 1885.
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