Authors: Michael Korda
Ulysses S. Grant (15 page)
A Note on Sources
The list is too long to include in full, but two books I have relied upon, though they are very different in their point of view, have been
Grant
by William S. McFeely (Newtown, Conn.: American Political Biography Press, 1997), and
Meet General Grant
by W. E. Woodward (1928; reprint, New York: Norton, 1965). Indispensable are
The West Point Atlas of American Wars: Volume I, 1689–1900
, edited by Brig. Gen. Vincent J. Esposito (West Point, N.Y., 1995) and
The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant
, edited by John Y. Simon (Southern Illinois University Press, 1967–). Reference must also be made to
The Civil War Battlefield Guide
, 2nd ed., edited by Frances H. Kennedy (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1990),
Grant: A Military Commander
, by Sir James Marshall-Cornwall (New York: Barnes & Noble, 1996), and, of course,
Grant’s Memoirs and Selected Letters
in the Library of America edition (New York, 1990).
Chapter One
1.
New York Daily News
, July 9, 2003; Associated Press, July 12, 2003.
2.
Information on Grant’s tomb is taken mostly from “Grant’s Tomb: An Overview” (available at http://www.grantstomb.org/oview1.html), “The Grant Monument Association Update on Grant’s Tomb,” March 19,
2003 (http://www.morningside-heights.net); and CNN Interactive
U.S. News
, April 27, 1997.
3.
“Men Grant Disliked,” Ulysses S. Grant home page, http://www.mscomm.com/~ulysses/page140.html
Chapter Two
1.
William S. McFeely,
Grant
.
2.
W. E. Woodward,
Meet General Grant
. I am indebted to Woodward for much of the information about Grant’s childhood. Writing in 1928, Woodward was closer to Grant’s time and had an affinity for his subject’s early years, and also for those of his future wife.
Chapter Three
1.
For much of this I have relied on McFeely, who is excellent on the subject of the Dent family.
2.
Again, McFeely’s is the best account of Grant’s military career in the Mexican War.
Chapter Four
1.
Woodward is an excellent source for Grant’s failure as a farmer.
Chapter Five
1.
McFeely is a superb guide to this complex period of Grant’s life.
2.
In general, in describing Grant’s battles, I have relied on
The West Point Atlas of the American Wars.
3.
As quoted in Woodward.
Chapter Six
1.
I have used several sources for Vicksburg, in order to try to condense the long and complicated struggle into a short and comprehensible form.
Chapter Seven
1.
There are several differing accounts of Grant’s arrival in Washington, and I have combined what seemed to me the most plausible ones (McFeely and Woodward) into a simple narrative.
2.
Again,
The West Point Atlas of the American Wars
is the basis for this, and for the rest of the chapter up to Appomattox.
Chapter Eight
1.
Ulysses S. Grant home page.
2.
McFeely’s is the best account of the Santo Domingo fiasco.
Chapter Nine
1.
McFeely takes a slightly more serious view of Lord Lytton’s description of Grant’s escapade than I do, but is otherwise excellent on the Grants’ world tour.
Chapter Ten
1.
Perhaps the best source for the writing of Grant’s memoirs is
General Grant by Matthew Arnold, with a Rejoinder by Mark Twain
, edited by John Y. Simon (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1995), who is also responsible for the monumental collection of
The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant
and is surely the dean of Grant scholars.
MICHAEL KORDA
, who served in the British armed forces, is the editor in chief of Simon & Schuster as well as the author of
Charmed Lives, Another Life, Horse People,
and several bestselling novels. He lives with his wife, Margaret, in upstate New York.
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Grant, who seldom had anything bad to say about anyone, said about Garfield that “he possessed the backbone of an angleworm.”
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In fact, due to the peculiarities of geography, both of these rivers run northward. I use the word “descend” because Grant would be going southward, but he would be moving against the current.
