The Life of General Ulysses S. Grant: Containing a Brief but Faithful Narrative of those Military and Diplomatic Achievements Which Have Entitled Him ... Countrymen (American Pioneers and Patriots)

General Grant is emphatically a man not of words but of deeds. His eloquence is theeloquence of action. He will be renowned through all future time for the achievementswhich he has performed-achievements which every impartial student of history will declare give him position among the ablest men the world has known. -John S.C. Abbott Preface 1868American historian John S.C. Abbott wrote The Life of General Ulysses S. Grant-Containing a Brief but Faithful Narrative of those Military and Diplomatic Achievements Which Have Entitled Him to the Confidence and Gratitude of his Countrymen (1868) as part of his American Pioneers and Patriots series. Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885) was an US general commander of the Union armies during the American Civil War and the 18th president of the United States (1869-1877).