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The Autobiography of General Ulysses S Grant: Memoirs of the Civil War

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Description didn't make clear it was only one of 2 volumes. Else everything was OK. Got the book in reasonable time and good condition.

General Grant's firsthand accounts of the campaigns that won the Civil War. Grant discusses his strategy and tactics, accompanied by maps and detailed descriptions of his actions. An indispensable source for anyone who is interested in the history of the Civil War.

EDIT: One of the reviewers incorrectly states that this book is just one volume of the two-volume set. It's not--it contains much of volume 1 and almost all of volume 2, but only covers the period of the Civil War. This edition does not have the first several chapters of Grant's two-volume autobiography describing his life before the Civil War, or the last few chapters describing his life after the war. It contains the complete text from both volumes covering the period from Fort Sumter to Appomattox.

Since buying the Kindle I have again and again discovered that the e-book (let alone the printed one as this) of classics is abridged or in terrible format. What is worse is that I only find out about it after reading the reviews. Specifically this book, books by Charles Darwin, poetry which has not been given returns between line. Bummer

ps - reviewers do a good job overall. Thanks

My Husband thought it was a really great autobiography. He is really into the civil war.