Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete

Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant
Ulysses S. Grant
i The Project Gutenberg EBook of Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. Grant This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete Author: Ulysses S. Grant Release Date: June 1, 2004 [EBook No. 4367] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII Produced by David Widger Produced in PDF Format by Chris Drane (cdrane@ieee.org) Cover page is a reproduction of ”U. S. Grant” by Daniel Huntingdon, Courtesy of the National Museum of the U. S. Army, Army Art Collection.
PREFACE
”Man proposes and God disposes.” There are but few important events in the affairs of men brought about by their own choice. Although frequently urged by friends to write my memoirs I had determined never to do so, nor to write anything for publication. At the age of nearly sixtytwo I received an injury from a fall, which confined me closely to the house while it did not apparently affect my general health. This made study a pleasant pastime. Shortly after, the rascality of a business partner developed itself by the announcement of a failure. This was followed soon after by universal depression of all securities, which seemed to threaten the extinction of a good part of the income still ...