Grant's Memoir, and 2024
If you like to immerse yourself in a swift, enthralling tale of breakneck action…don’t read ‘’The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant.’’ If you like leisurely, clear, honest, straightforward story telling, this is a pleasure. The Memoir could almost have been written yesterday, so fresh, undated and conversational is Grant’s writing.
My great, great grandfather, George Harrington, and his brother Blin enlisted from Illinois at the start of the war ‘’to free the slaves and save the union.’’ Blin was killed at Vicksburg two years later. George survived the entire four years, through 17 battles and skirmishes, ending up under Sherman in the March to the Sea. Deep family roots in American history compelled me to finally read Grant’s Memoirs, but you don’t have to feel ties to Americana to enjoy this formidable work of literature. Reading the Memoirs is to see into the character of a frank, unpretentious, straight-talking, immensely capable soldier and wise, compassionate leader at the most critical moment in American history. The most critical moment, that is, until our upcoming election of 2024, which will determine whether this republic - saved through the bloodiest war of the 19th century - will survive.
Rich
richflandersmusic.com
''Under the Great Elm - A Life of Luck & Wonder''
My great, great grandfather, George Harrington, and his brother Blin enlisted from Illinois at the start of the war ‘’to free the slaves and save the union.’’ Blin was killed at Vicksburg two years later. George survived the entire four years, through 17 battles and skirmishes, ending up under Sherman in the March to the Sea. Deep family roots in American history compelled me to finally read Grant’s Memoirs, but you don’t have to feel ties to Americana to enjoy this formidable work of literature. Reading the Memoirs is to see into the character of a frank, unpretentious, straight-talking, immensely capable soldier and wise, compassionate leader at the most critical moment in American history. The most critical moment, that is, until our upcoming election of 2024, which will determine whether this republic - saved through the bloodiest war of the 19th century - will survive.
Rich
richflandersmusic.com
''Under the Great Elm - A Life of Luck & Wonder''
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Jan 15, 2024 06:07AM
Wasn't Grant's Memoir written by Mark Twain, with Grant's help, of course?
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Patrick wrote: "Wasn't Grant's Memoir written by Mark Twain, with Grant's help, of course?"Hi Patrick - Not that I know of. Twain was a friend and admirer of Grant, saw that Grant was deeply in debt, almost destitute, and dying from throat cancer as well (from decades of cigars). Twain kept after him to write the memoirs before it was too late, and helped secure a good publishing arrangement for him, but to my knowledge all the writing was Grant's. As it turned out the Memoirs became an enormous ''best seller'' and turned around the fortunes of the Grant family, thanks in no small part to Twain.
