Personal Memoirs of U S Grant. Two Volumes in One. 666 pages. 

Charles L. Webster & Co. was a publishing house founded and run by legendary author Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) and his nephew-in-law, Charles Webster. Grant wrote the manuscript while dying of throat cancer to rescue his family from total bankruptcy. Twain stepped in to offer Grant an unprecedented 70% profit share, circumventing standard predatory publishing practices of the era. This 1894 release represents one of the final major production runs issued directly by Twain's firm before the Charles L. Webster company went bankrupt and collapsed later that same year due to other financial missteps.

The 1894 edition retains the complete, unabridged text. Widely recognized by historians and literary critics as one of the finest military memoirs ever penned in the English language, Grant writes with an extraordinarily modern, direct, and unpretentious prose style.

• Volume I Material: Follows Grant's youth in Ohio, his time at West Point, his early action in the Mexican-American War (where he critiques the war as politically unjust), and the initial campaigns of the Civil War leading up to the Siege of Vicksburg.
• Volume II Material: Transitions into his command of the entire Union Army, his meticulous strategic coordination with General William T. Sherman, the brutal Overland Campaign against Robert E. Lee, the historic surrender at Appomattox Court House, and the Grand Review of the Armies in Washington D.C

Published 1894 by Charles L Webster & Co, New York. Bright cover, firm binding, strong hinges and clean text.