Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant

Personal Memoirs of U. S. GrantIn 1854, after serving in the U. S. Army for 11 years, Ulysses Simpson Grant (1822 1885) resigned his commission and found himself out of a job and out of money. Over the next seven years he tried his hand at several occupations but succeeded in none. Only the outbreak of the Civil War and Grants eventual command of the Union Army provided the opportunity to display the military brilliance for which he would best be remembered. Following the war and

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but also an extensive sampler of Victorian ornamentation — a valuable reference book and source of royalty-free graphics

with complete instructions for cutting and sewing

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Charting a passage that takes him from life as an Igbo prince in what is now eastern Nigeria to the New World

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In the 1890s and for years thereafter

he has to decide what to do with his gifts

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