Author

Books by Ulysses S. Grant

Ulysses S. Grant was born in 1822 in Ohio, graduated from West Point in 1843, and served in the Mexican-American War before leaving the Army in 1854. After struggling financially for years he rejoined the military at the outbreak of the Civil War and rose to become General-in-Chief of the Union Army. He accepted Lee's surrender at Appomattox in 1865 and served two terms as the 18th President of the United States from 1869 to 1877. He was diagnosed with throat cancer in 1884 and completed his memoirs four days before his death on July 23, 1885. Mark Twain's publishing house published the book that same year.