The Life of General Ulysses S. Grant, Illustrated: Containing a Brief but Faithful Narrative of those Military and Diplomatic Achievements Which Have Entitled Him to the Confidence and Gratitude of his Countrymen

"General Grant is emphatically a man, not of words, but of deeds. His eloquence is the eloquence of action. He will be renowned, through all future time, for the achievements which he has performed--achievements which, every impartial student of history will declare, give him position among the ablest men the world has known." --John S.C. Abbott, Preface, 1868

American historian John S.C. Abbott wrote The Life of General Ulysses S. Grant--Containing a Brief but Faithful Narrative of those Mi...