Grant · A biography

"First published as a Norton paperback, 1982.";Includes bibliographical references (pages 561-575) and index;Crowds and families -- Cadetship and courtship -- The Mexican War -- A soldier between wars -- Galena -- Escaping from the ordinary -- Warriors -- Battles -- Shiloh -- Vicksburg -- Chattanooga -- Washington and the Wilderness -- Petersburg -- Peace -- "On the Mexico" -- After the war -- The rising man -- The president and his cabinet -- Original occupants of this land -- A Friday and a friend -- England and Santo Domingo -- Democracy -- Greatness -- Wedding and whiskey -- Waifs -- Around the world -- Grant Chronicles the life of Ulysses S. Grant, the Ohioan who became the leader of the Union Army and later the president

Includes bibliographical references (pages 561-575) and index

Crowds and families -- Cadetship and courtship -- The Mexican War -- A soldier between wars -- Galena -- Escaping from the ordinary -- Warriors -- Battles -- Shiloh -- Vicksburg -- Chattanooga -- Washington and the Wilderness -- Petersburg -- Peace -- "On the Mexico" -- After the war -- The rising man -- The president and his cabinet -- Original occupants of this land -- A Friday and a friend -- England and Santo Domingo -- Democracy -- Greatness -- Wedding and whiskey -- Waifs -- Around the world -- Grant & Ward -- To write a book: to be a man

**Winner of the Pulitzer Prize**.

The seminal biography of one of America's towering, enigmatic figures. From his boyhood in Ohio to the battlefields of the Civil War and his presidency during the crucial years of Reconstruction, this Pulitzer Prize-winning biography traces the entire arc of Grant's life (1822-1885).

Author Biography: *William S. McFeely* is the author of *Yankee Stepfather, Frederick Douglass, Sapelo's People*, and, most recently, *Proximity to Death*. He lives in Wellfleet, Massachusetts.