Mcfeely 1981 grant a biography

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I laughed and nodded when McFeely cited, as evidence Ulysses Grant felt complete only in battle , the fact that Grant finished the Mexican War with two big promotions and a sterling combat record despite never having been assigned combat duties.

This is a biography of a mid-nineteenth century Ohio boy who couldn't hold a job but became the nation's commanding general and later its president.

This is a biography of a mid-nineteenth century Ohio boy who couldn't hold a job but became the nation's commanding general and later its president.

Grant A Biography Revised Edition.

"Combines scholarly exactness with evocative phy at its best."—Marcus Cunliffe, The New York Times Book Review; Winner of the Pulitzer Prize.

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“Grant: A Biography” is William McFeely's Pulitzer Prize winning biography of the Union general and eighteenth president.

He was his regiment’s quartermaster, the supply guy in the rear of the column, back with the mules. But dude could not stay out of a fight. During the final assault on Mexico City, future adversary Robert E. Lee and the spearhead of US troops were pinned down under fire before San Cosme gate.

Earlier, during preparations for the assault, Grant had, on his own hunch, reconnoitered a church whose belfry looked to him as if it could command the back of the San Cosme defenses. Now he rounded up some volunteers, unpacked a portable mountain howitzer, darted and dodged over the intervening terrain, parlayed with the padre in a politely intimidating Spanish, mounted the bel