General William Tecumseh Sherman’s Annotated Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. [U.S.] Grant.

by Grant, Ulysses S. [U.S.] [William Tecumseh Sherman]

$200,000 · Offered by Biblio

First edition · Signed

New York: Charles L. Webster Company, 1885-86. Exceedingly rare first edition of the autobiography of Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th President of the United States, which focusing mainly on his military career during the Mexican War and the Civil War, entirely singular, owned and annotated by Grant's close friend and most esteemed general: William Tecumseh Sherman. Octavo, 2 volumes, bound in the original full deluxe tree calf with gilt titles and elegant tooling to the spine, gilt ruled borders to the front and rear panels, gilt inner dentelles, all edges gilt, engraved portrait frontispieces, illustrated with numerous facsimile letters [2 folding], maps, and wood engravings. William Tecumseh Sherman evidently read thes volumes in great detail, making marginal notes on at least 18 pages in Vol. I, several of them signed with his initials. On the last page of Vol. I, Sherman wrote: "Read at St. Louis Mo. Dec 5 + 6, 1885. This account of the Civil War is wonderfully accurate and him. W.T.S." Many of the notes are small corrections and additions by Sherman. On a passage regarding the Yazoo Pass Expedition on page 435 of Vol. I, Sherman pointedly writes: "This conforms literally [to my] memoirs on the point most contested by Grant's pretended friends. W.T.S." He provides further thoughts regarding political interference on the next page: "If Grant had gone ahead, living off the country, we would have been inside of Vicksburg by Christmas 1862, the distance from Grenada to Vicksburg

• Publisher: Charles L. Webster & Company
• Year: 1885
• Edition: First Edition
• Binding: hardcover

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