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Grant : a biography / William S. McFeely.

Title
Grant : a biography / William S. McFeely.
Author
McFeely, William S.
Publication
  • New York : Norton, [1981]
  • ©1981

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Additional Authors
  • Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012
  • Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana (Mississippi State University. Libraries) MsSM
Description
xiii, 592 pages : illustrations, portraits; 24 cm
Summary
The story of the Ohioan who became the leader of the Union Army and later the president.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Association copies (Provenance)
  • Biography
  • Biographies
  • History
  • Biographies.
  • Biographie.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 561-575) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Awards (note)
  • Pulitzer Prize, Biography, 1982.
  • Society of American Historians Francis Parkman Prize, 1982.
Contents
Crowds and families -- Cadetship and courtship -- The Mexican War -- A soldier between wars -- Galena -- Escaping from the ordinary -- Warriors -- Battles -- Shiloh -- Vicksburg -- Chattanooga -- Washington and the wilderness -- Petersburg -- Peace -- "On to Mexico" -- After the war -- The rising man -- The president and his cabinet -- Original occupants of this land -- A Friday and a friend -- England and Santo Domingo -- Democracy -- Greatness -- Wedding and whiskey -- Waifs -- Around the world -- Grant & Ward -- To write a book : to be a man.
ISBN
  • 0393013723
  • 9780393013726
  • 0393323943
  • 9780393323948
  • 0393300463
  • 9780393300468
LCCN
80025279
OCLC
  • 6889578
  • SCSB-10735139
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library