Grant and Sherman: Civil War Memoirs (2 Volumes)

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For the 150th anniversary of the Civil War The Library of America re-issues the memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman in a handsome newly designed case. An ailing Grant wrote his Personal Memoirs to secure his familys future. In doing so the Civil Wars greatest general won himself a unique place in American letters. John Keegan has called it "perhaps the most revelatory autobiography of high command to exist in any language." The Library of Americas edition of Grants Memoirs includes 175 of his letters to Lincoln Sherman and his wife Julia among others. Hailed as a prophet of modern war and condemned as a harbinger of modern barbarism William T. Sherman is the most controversial general of the Civil War. "War is cruelty and you cannot refine it " he wrote in fury to the Confederate mayor of Atlanta and his memoir is filled with dozens of such wartime exchanges and a fascinating account of the famous march through Georgia and the Carolinas. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nations literary heritage by publishing and keeping permanently in print Americas best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date authoritative editions that average 1 000 pages in length feature cloth covers sewn bindings and ribbon markers and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.