This collection of letters will constitute a suitable companion volume
to Grant's _Personal Memoirs_ and to the accepted biographies of the
Great Commander whose memory is honored by his fellow-citizens not
only for the patience, persistence, and skill of the leader of armies,
as evidenced in the brilliant campaigns that culminated with
Vicksburg, Missionary Ridge, and Appomattox, but for the sturdy
integrity of character, modest bearing, and sweetness of nature of the
great citizen.

GEO. HAVEN PUTNAM.

NEW YORK, April 25, 1912.




ILLUSTRATIONS


ULYSSES SIMPSON GRANT (Frontispiece)
From a photograph by W. Kurtz, New York.

JESSE ROOT GRANT, ÆTAT. 69
Father of Ulysses Simpson Grant.
From a photograph.

MRS. HANNAH GRANT
Mother of Ulysses Simpson Grant.
From a photograph by Landy, taken in Cincinnati.