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Abbott, John S.C. The Life of General Ulysses S. Grant. Cincinnati: White, Corbin, Bouvé, & Co., 1868.

Allen, Stephen M. Memorial Life of General Ulysses S. Grant. Boston: Webster Historical Society, 1889.

Allen, William H. The American Civil War Book. 1894.

Alter, Judy. Ulysses S. Grant. Myreportlinks.com, 2002.

American Political Items Collectors. The Keynoter. 1995.

Anderson, Dwight & Nancy. The Generals Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee. 1988.

Anjou, Gustave. The Grant-Dent Family. Privately published, 1906
Arnold, James R. Grant Wins the War: Decision at Vicksburg. New York: Wiley, 1997.

Arnold, James R. The Armies of U.S. Grant. London: Arms and Armour, 1995.

Archer, Jules. A House Divided The Lives of Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee. Scholastic, Inc., 1994.

Arnold, James. The Armies of U.S. Grant. 1994.

Arnold, Matthew. General Grant. 1995.

Arnold, Matthew. General Grant with a Rejoinder by Mark Twain. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1966.
Atkinson, C. F. Grant’s Campaigns of 1864 and 1865. London: Hugh Rees, 1908.

Atlantic Monthly Magazine. "The Next President". Edition 5, 1868.

Atlantic Monthly Magazine. "The Intellectual Character of President Grant". Edition 11, 1869.

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Badeau, Adam. Military History of U.S. Grant. 1868.
Badeau, Adam. Grant in Peace: From Appomattox to Mount McGregor. A Personal Memoir. Hartford, Conn.: Scranton, 1887.
Badeau, Adam. Military History of Ulysses S. Grant, from April 1861 to April 1865. 3 vols. New York: D. Appleton, 1881.
Ballard, Colin R. The Military Genius of Abraham Lincoln.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1952.

Ballard, Michael B. U.S. Grant The Making of a General, 1861-1863. Muze, Inc. 1995-2006.

Balch, William Ralston. Life and Public Services of General Grant. San Francisco: Occidental Publishing Co., 1885.

Bant, Joyce Swenson. The Story of Ruth. 1988.

Barber, James G. U.S. Grant The man and The Image. 1985.

Bedwell, Randall. ed. May I Quote You, General Grant: Observations and Utterances of the North’s Great Generals. (May I Quote You, General Series) 1998.

Beecher, Henry Ward. Eulogy on General Grant. Jenkins & McCowan, 1885.

Behrman, Carol. Ulysses S. Grant. Lerner Publications Co., 2004.

Bender, Norman J. “New Hope for the Indians” The Grant Peace Policy and the Navajos in  the 1870’s. 1989.

Bentley, Bill. Ulysses S. Grant. New York: Watts, 1993.

Bivin, Susan. Ulysses S. Grant. Lerner Publications Co., 2005.

Boothe, F. Norton. Ulysses S. Grant. Stanford, CT.: Longmeadow Press, 1992.

Boritt, Gabor S., ed. Lincoln’s General. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.
Boyd, James P. Military and Civil Life of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant. Philadelphia: P.W. Ziegler,  1885.

Bracelen-Flood, Charles. Grant & Sherman-The Friendship That Won The Civil War. 2005.

Bradford, Ned. Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1956.

Brisbin, General James S.  The Campaign Lives of Ulysses S. Grant and Schuyler Colfax. Cincinnati, OH: C. F. Vent & Co., Publishers 1868.

Brockett, Linus P. Our Great Captains: Grant, Sherman, Thomas, Sheridan, and Farragut.  New York: C.B. Richardson, 1865.

Brooks, Elbridge S. Heroic Life of Ulysses S. Grant. Boston: Dewolfe, Fiske, & Co., 1902.

Brooks, Elbridge S. The True Story of U.S. Grant. 1897.

Brooks, William E. Grant of Appomattox. 1942.

Brown, Robert L. The Celebrated Tour of Ulysses S. Grant. Boulder: The Denver Westerners Monthly Roundup, April 1969 IVol. XXV, No. 4).

Brown, Emma Elizabeth. Life of Ulysses Simpson Grant. D. Lothrop & Co.,

Buehr, Wendy. Ulysses Simpson Grant. Communication Ventures, Inc. New York City, 1976.

Burke, Davis. To Appomattox; Nine April Days, 1865. New York: Rinehart & Co., 1959.

Burne, Alfred H. Lee, Grant and Sherman: A Study of Leadership in the 1864-65 Campaign.  New York: Gale and Polden, 1939.
Burne, Alfred H. General U.S. Grant. Boston: Little, Brown, 1885.

Burnside, George D. Life of General U.S. Grant. 1928.

Burr, Frank A. Life and Deeds of General Grant. Boston: George M Smith & Co., 1885.

Byrd, Max. Grant, A Novel. Bantam Books, 2000.

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C.J. Krhbiel Company, The Grant Boy. 1957.

Cadwallader, Sylvanus. Three Years With Grant. 1955

Cantacuzene, Princess. My Life Here and There. 1922.

Carey, H.C. Shall we have peace? Peace financial, and peace political? Letters to the President Elect of the United States. Philadelphia: Pr. by Collins, 1869.

Carpenter, John A. Ulysses S. Grant. 1970.

Carroll, Virginia. Grant Comes Home. 1965.

Carter, E.J. Ulysses S. Grant. Heineman/Raintree, 2004.

Carter, James C. Supreme Court, City and County of New York.

Casey, Emma Dent. When Grant went a-courtin', by his wife's sister: Emma Dent Casey. New York: The Circle Publishing Co., 1909.

Catton, Bruce.  A Stillness At Appomattox. 1954.

Catton, Bruce. Grant Moves South, 1861-1863. Boston: Little Brown, 1960.

Catton, Bruce. Grant Takes Command. 1969.

Catton, Bruce. Never Call Retreat. 1965.

Catton, Bruce. The Generalship of Ulysses S. Grant. N.W. Ill. Press, 1964.

Catton, Bruce. U.S. Grant and the American Military Tradition. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1954.

Chamerlin, Everett, The Struggle of '72: The Issues and the Candidates of the Present Political Campaign, Containing Biographical Sketches of All the Candidates for President and Vice President, History and Platforms of the Great Political Parties... Chicago: Chicago Union Publishing Company, 1872.

Childs, George W. Recollections. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1890.

Church, William Conant. Ulysses S. Grant And The Period Of National Preservation And Reconstruction. Garden City, NY.: Garden City Pub., 1926.

Clarke, Oliver P. General Grant at Mount McGregor by O.P. Clarke, Custodian of the Grant Cottage. Saratoga Springs, N.Y.: Cozzens and Waterbury, 1895.

Coffin, Howard. The Battered Stars: One State's Civil War Ordeal During Grant's Overland Campaigns. The Countryman Press, 2002.

Coleman, Charles. The Election of 1868. New York: Columbia University Press, 1933.
Collidge, Louis A. Ulysses S. Grant. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1917.
Conger, Arthus L. The Rise of U.S. Grant. New York: The Century Company, 1931.
Coolidge, Louis A. Ulysses S. Grant. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1917.

Coombs, Lovell. U.S. Grant. New York: The World Publishing Co., 1925.

Coppee, Henry. Grant and His Campaigns: A Military Biography. New York: Charles B. Richardson, 1866.

Coppee, Henry. Life and Services of Gen. U.S. Grant. 1868.

Corbett, Elizabeth. If It Takes All Summer: The Life-Story of Ulysses Grant. New York.: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1930.

Cramer, Jesse Grant. Letters of Ulysses S. Grant 1857-78. 1912.

Cross, Nelson. The Life of General Grant, His Political Record, etc. New York: J.S. Redfield,  1872.

Crummer, Wilber F. With Grant at Fort Donelson, Shiloh and Vicksburg. 1915.

Cullum, George W. Biographical Register of Officers and Cadets of the U.S. Military  Academy at West Point, N.Y. from Its Establishment in 1802 to 1890. With the Early History of the United States Military Academy. 3rd ed. Rev. and ext. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1891.

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Dana, Charles A. The life of Ulysses S. Grant, General of the Armies of the United States. Gurdon Bill & Co., 1868.
Davis, William, Death in the Trenches: Grant at Petersburg. Alexandria, VA.: Time-Life Books,  1986.

Deming, Henry C. The Life of General U.S. Grant. Hartford, CT.: S.S. Scranton & Co., 1868.

Devens, Charles. Two Addresses Commemorative of General Grant. 1885.

Devon, Louis. Aide to Glory: A Novel based on John Rawlins, Aide to General U.S. Grant. 1952.

Dieck, Herman. The most complete and authentic history of the life and public services of General U.S. Grant, "The Napoleon of America" : containing a full account of his early life ; his record as a student at the West Point Academy ... / by Herman Dieck. Philadelphia, Pa. : Hero, 1885.

Dimke, Jamie. A Chronological Timeline of the Life of Ulysses S. Grant. 2004.

Dodge, Grenville M. Personal Recollections of President Abraham Lincoln, General U.S.  Grant, and William T. Sherman. Council Bluffs, IA.: Monarch, 1902.

Doehn, Rudolf. Die Administration der Präsidenten U.S. Grant und R.B. Hayes. Leipzig : F.W. Grunow, 1881.

Dowdey, Clifford. Lee's Last Campaign. 1993.

Dunning, William A. Reconstruction, Political and Economic, 1865-1877. New York: Harper,  1907.

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Eaton, John, and Ethel O. Mason. Grant, Lincoln, and the Freedmen: Reminiscences of the  Civil War With Special Reference to the Work of the Contrabands and Freemen of the Mississippi Valley. New York: Longmans, Green, 1907.

Eddy, T.M. The Patriotism of Illinois: A Record of the Civil and Military History of the State in War For the Union. Chicago: Clarke & Co., 1865/66.

Edgar, George P., ed. Gems of the Campaign of 1880. By General Grant and Garfield. Jersey  City: Lincoln Association, 1881.

Edmonds, Franklin Spencer. Ulysses S. Grant. Philadelphia: G.W. Jacobs & Company 1915.

Ellington, Charles G. The trial of U.S. Grant : the Pacific Coast years, 1852-1854 /by Charles G. Ellington ; with a foreword by John Y. Simon. Glendale, Calif. : A.H. Clark Co., 1987.

Erlich, Ev. Grant Speaks. Warner Books, Inc., 2001.

Eunson, Keith. The Wreck of the General Grant. H,H, & A.W. Reed, 1974.

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Fairman, Charles. Reconstruction and Reunion, 1864-1888. 2 vols. New York: Macmillan, 1971.
Falkof, Lucille. Ulysses S. Grant. 18th President of the United States. Ada, OK.: Garrett, 1988.

Farman, Elbert D. Along the Nile; An Account of the Visit to Egypt of General Grant and His Tour Through That Country. Grafton Press, 1908.

Farnen, Russell Francis, Jr. Ulysses S. Grant : the soldier as politician, 1861 to 1868. 1963.

Feis, William B. Finding the enemy: The role of military intelligence in the campaigns of Ulysses S. Grant, 1861-1865. Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 1997.

Feis, William B. Grant's Secret Service. University of Nebraska Press, 2002.

Fiske, A.S. Our Dead Hero (Ulysses S. Grant). A Discourse by Rev. A.S. Fiske, Ithaca, N.Y., Sunday, July 26, 1883. Ithaca, NY, 1885.

Fitzgerald, Christine. Julia Dent Grant. New York: Children's Press, 1998.

Frank Leslie's Publishing House. Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly Vol. XIX. 1885.

Frassanito, William A. Grant and Lee: The Virginia Campaigns, 1864-1865. New York:  Scribner’s Reference, 1983.

Freeman, David. U.S. Grant in the City. Viking Press, 1971.

Frost, Lawrence. A Pictorial Biography of Ulysses S. Grant: From Leather Clerk to the White House. Superior Publishing Co. Seattle First ed. Illustrated, 1966.

Fuller, J.F.C. General Grant, A Biography for Young Americans. 1932.

Fuller, J.F.C. The Generalship of Ulysses S. Grant. 1929.

Fuller, J.F.C. Major General. Grant and Lee A Study in Personality and General Ship. 1957.
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Gage, Moses D. From Vicksburg to Raleigh. A Complete History of the 12th Regiment I  Indiana Volunteer Infantry and the Campaign of Grant and Sherman, with an Outline of the Great Rebellion. Chicago: Clarke, 1865.

Garland, Hamlin. Ulysses S. Grant, His Life and Character. 1898.

Gaines, Ann. Ulysses S. Grant: Our Eighteenth President. Childs World, 2001.

Gernes, Maud Ann. General Ulysses S. Grant and the Politics of 1864. 1928.

Gillete, William. Retreat from Reconstruction, 1869-1879. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State  University Press, 1979.

Gingrich, Newt. Grant Comes East A Novel of the Civil War. 2004.

Goldhurst, Richard. Many Are The Hearts The Agony and The Triumph of Ulysses S. Grant.  New York: Reader's Digest Press, 1975.

Goss, Warren. A Life of Grant. Crowell Books, 1911.

Grabsky, Phil. The Great Commanders. 1993.

Grand Army of the Republic. The Statue of General Ulysses S. Grant. Washington D.C.:  Washington Government Printing, 1901.
Grant, Arthur H. The Grant Family: A Genealogical History of the Descendants of Matthew  Grant of Winsor, Conn. 1601-1898. Poughkeepsie, N.Y.: A.V. Haight, 1898.

Grant, Frank. The Grant Family. 1914.

Grant, Jesse. In The Days Of My Father General Grant. 1925
Grant, Julia Dent. My Life Here and There. New York: Harper, 1921.

Grant, Julia Dent. The Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant. 1975.

Grant, Matthew G. Ulysses S. Grant: General and President. With illustrations by John Nelson.
Mankato, MN.: Creative Education, 1974.

Grant Monument Association. A Guide to the Grant Monument. New York: The Grant Monument Association Paper, 1950.

Grant, Ulysses S. General Grant’s Letters to a Friend, 1861-1880. With an introduction and  notes by James Grant Wilson, ed. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1897.

Grant, Ulysses S. Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant Vol. I. 1885.

Grant, Ulysses S. Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant Vol. II. 1885.

Grant, Ulysses S. Letters of Ulysses S. Grant to His Father and Youngest Sister. New York: D. Appleton, 1912.

Grant, Ulysses S. Message of the President of the United States Communicating, in Compliance with the Resolutions of the Senate of the 26th of May and the 14th of June, 1870, Information in Relation to the Seizure of American Vessels, and Injuries to American Citizens, During the Hostilities in Cuba. July 9, 1870...41st Cong., 2d Sess. Washington, 1870.

Grant, Ulysses S. Official Proceedings of the Anti-Third Term Republican Convention. Masonic Hall, St. Louis, MO., May 6th, 1880. St. Louis: Republican Party, 1880.

Grant, Ulysses S. Official Report of Lieut.-Gen. Ulysses S. Grant; Embracing a History of the Operations of the Armies of the Union from March 1862 to the Closing Scene of the Rebellion.  New York: Beadle, 1865.

Grant, Ulysses S. Presidential Election, 1868. Proceedings of the National Union Republican Convention, held at Chicago, May 20 and 21, 1868. Chicago, 1868.

Grant, Ulysses S. Report of Lieutenant-General U.S. Grant, of the Armies of the United States – 1864-65. New York: D. Appleton, 1866.

Grant, Ulysses S. Tour Around the World. 1879.

Grant, Ulysses S. Ulysses S. Grant: Conversations and Unpublished Letters. M.J. Cramer, ed. New York: Eaton and Mains, 1897.
Grant, Ulysses S. Ulysses S. Grant, 1822-1885; Chronology, Documents, Bibliographical  Aids. Philip R. Moran, ed. Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.: Oceana, 1968.
Grant, Ulysses S. Words by Our Hero, Ulysses S. Grant. Jeremiah Chaplin, ed. Boston: D.  Lothrop,1885.
Grant 3rd. Major General Ulysses. General Ulysses S. Grant: A Close-Up. 1953.
Grant 3rd. Major General Ulysses. Ulysses S. Grant Warrior and Statesman. Morrow Publishers, 1969.

Green, Anna. Civil War Public Opinion of General Grant. Ohio State University, 1928.

Green, Horace. General Grant's Last Stand. New York: Scribners, 1936.

Gregson, Susan R. Ulysses S. Grant. Bridgestone Books, 2002.

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Hablemman, Julius E. The Dramatic Career of U.S. Grant. Haldeman-Julius Publishers, 1929.
 
Hageman, S. Miller. Grant. Delivered by the Rev. Miller Hageman before the Grant birthday association of New York. At the annual banquet, April 27, 1889. Brooklyn: By the author, c1890.
Hamilton, James. The Battle of Fort Donelson. Thomas Yoseloff Ltd., 1968.
 
Hanna, Ronnie. Never Call Retreat. The Life and Times of Ulysses S. Grant, Ulster-American Hero. Lurgan: Ulster Society, 1991.
Harrison, Frank. Anecdotes and Reminiscences of General U.S. Grant. Comp. by an Old Soldier. New York: Cheap Publishing, 1885.
Harvey, George W. Ulysses S. Grant: The Citizen, the Soldier, the Statesman. Chicago: T.H. Bush, 1885.

Hassler, Warren W., Jr. Commanders of the Army of the Potomac. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1962.

Haugen, Brenda. Ulysses S. Grant Union General and U.S. President. 2004.

Headley, Joel T. Grant and Sherman: Their Campaign and Generals. New York: E.B. Treat, 1866.

Headley, Hon. J.T. The Travels of Gen. Grant. 1879.

Headley, Rev. P.C. Fight It Out On This Line. 1885.

Headley, Rev. P.C. The Hero Boy; or The Life and Deeds of Lieut.-Gen. Grant. 1864.

Headley, Rev. P.C. From Boyhood to the Surrender of Lee. Derby & Miller Pub. Co., 1866.

Headley, Rev. P.C. The Life and Campaigns of General U.S. Grant. 1869.

Headley, Rev. P.C. The Life and Deeds of Gen. U.S. Grant. 1885.

Hesseltine, William B. Ulysses S. Grant Politician. Dodd, Mead, 1935.

Hill, Frederick Trevor. On the Trail of Grant and Lee. 1911/2003.

Hoar, George F. The Charges Against President Grant and Attorney General Hoar of Packin. 1896.

Hobbs, Richard Gear. Grant Man Soldier Statesman. Galena, Illinois: Galena Print, 1940.

Holton, Bill. From Battlefield To Bottom Line. 1995.

Holton, Bil, Phd. From Battlefield to Bottom Line: The Leadership Lessons of Ulysses S. Grant.

Howell, Col. Willey. Lieut.-General Grant’s Campaign of 1864-65. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1916.

Howland, Edward. Grant As A Soldier And A Statesman. Hartford, CT.:  J. B. Burr & Company, 1868.

Hughes, Nathaniel Cheairs, Jr. The Battle of Belmont: Grant Strikes South. Chapel Hill, NC.: University of North Carolina Press, 1991.

Hunt, Gaillard, Israel, Elihu and Cadwallader Washburn. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1925.
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Illinois Division of Parks and Memorials. Ulysses S. Grant Home at Galena. Springfield, Illinois: Illinois Division of Parks and Memorials.
 
Illustrated Life, Campaigns, and Public Services of Lieutenant General Grant. Philadelphia:  T.B. Peterson and Brothers, 1865.
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Jackson, John Collins. Grant's Strategies and other addresses by John Collins Jackson. Westerville, OH.: The American Issue Publishing Company, 1910.
Jones, Frank H. General Ulysses S. Grant. 1922.

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Kaltman, Al. Cigars, Whiskey & Winning  Leadership Lessons from General Ulysses S. Grant. Prentice Hall Press, 1998.

Kantor, MacKinlay. Lee and Grant at Appomattox. New York: Random House, 1964.

Keegan, John The Mask of Command. 1987.

Kelly-Patrick, Bethanne. Ulysses S. Grant. Mason Crest, 2002.

Kent, Zachary. Ulysses S. Grant: Eighteenth President of the United States. Chicago: Children  Press,1989.

King, Charles. The True Ulysses S. Grant. 1914.

King, David C. Ulysses S. Grant: Leader of the Union Army (Triangle Histories – The Civil War.) 2001.

Kinkead, Keith. The Simpson Grant Story. 1984.

Kinkead, Robert. The Simpson Grant Story. 1984.

Kirk, John. Memoirs - Ulysses S. Grant. New York, NY: Random House, 1995.

Knox, Thomas W. Boys' Life of General Grant. Akron, OH.: Werner Company, 1899.

Korda, Michael. Ulysses S. Grant. Harpercollins, 2004.

Korn, Jerry. War on the Mississippi: Grant’s Vicksburg Campaign. Alexandria, VA.: Time-Life  Books, 1985.
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Larke, Julian K. General Grant and His Campaigns. 1864.
Larke, Julian K., and J. Harris Patton. General U.S. Grant: His Early Life and Military Career. New York: Thomas Kelly, 1885.

Lassers, Eugene W. The Famous & The Infamous Presidential Trivia-Book 1. 1986.

Leavitt, Samuel. Dictator Grant; or, The Overthrow of the Republic in 1880. New York, 1879.

Leiter, Barnard Kelly. A study of the relationship between General Ulysses S. Grant and various Illinois newspapers covering the period June, 1861, to March, 1864. Southern Illinois University (Thesis, M.A.), Carbondale, Illinois, 1964.

Lewis, Thomas S.W. “To, to Be, to Suffer”: The Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant. Saratoga,  Springs, N.Y.: Skidmore College Press, 1985.

Lewis, Lloyd. Captain Sam Grant. 1950.

Lewis, Lloyd. Letters From Lloyd Lewis. 1950.

Library of Congress. Manuscript Division. Index to the Ulysses S. Grant papers. Washington [For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Govt. Print. Off.] 1965.

Logan, John Alexander. Speech of John A. Logan, of Illinois, in Senate of the United States, June 3, 1872; in reply of Senator Sumner's attack on the administration of President Grant. Washington, Printed at the Congressional Globe Office, 1872.

Longacre, Edward G. Grant's Cavalryman: The Life and Wars of General James H. Wilson. 1996.

Longacre, Edward G. General Ulysses S. Grant: The Soldier and the Man. DaCapo Publisher, 2006.

Lossing, Benson J.  The Life Campaigns and Battles of General Ulysses S. Grant. 1868.

Lowry, Don. Ulysses S. Grant's Wilderness Campaign of 1864 - 65. 1992.

Lyman, Payson W. With Grant and Meade from the Wilderness to Appomattox. Lincoln:  University of Nebraska Press, 1994.
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MacArtney, Clarence Edward Noble. Grant and His Generals. 1971.

Maihafer, Harry J. The General And The Journalists / Ulysses S. Grant, Horace Greeley and Charles Dana. Sterling Brassey's, Inc., 1998.

Mansfield, Edward Deering. A Popular and Authentic Life of Ulysses S. Grant. R. W. Carroll & Co.,  1868.

Mansfield, Edward Deering. Lives of Grant & Colfax. R.W. Carroll & Co., 1868.

Mantell, Martin. Johnson, Grant and the Politics of Reconstruction. 1973.

Marrin, Albert. Unconditional Surrender U.S. Grant and the Civil War. Simon & Schuster, 1994.

Marsh, Carole/Stevens/Debbie. Ulysses S. Grant; The Ohio Experience. 2001.

Marshall-Cornwall, James. Grant As Military Commander. 1970.

Marshall, Edward C. The Ancestry of General Grant, and Their Contemporaries. New York: Sheldon, 1869.

Marsch, Carole / Zimmer, Kathy. Ulysses S. Grant; The Virginia Experience. 2001.

Mauck, Jeffrey. U.S. Grant in the War With Mexico. American Kestrel Books, 1996.

McClellan, Carswell. THe Personal Memoirs and Military History of U.S. Grant. 1887.

McClure, J.P. Stories and Sketches of Gen'l Grant At Home and Abroad. Chicago: Rhodes & McClure, 1879.

McConnell, Thomas G. Conversations with General Grant. An Informal Biography.  Annandale, VA.: Walnut Hill, 1990.

McCormick, Robert R. Ulysses S. Grant, The Greatest Soldier of America. D. Appelton-Century, 1934.

McCormick, Robert R. The War Without Grant. New York: The Bond Wheelwright Co., 1950.

McDonald, Gen. John. Secrets of the Great Whiskey Ring. 1880.

McFeely, William S.  Grant A Biography.  New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1981.

McFeely, Mary Darke and McFeely, William S. (Ed). Ulysses S. Grant. Memoirs and Selected Letters. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant-Selected Letters 1839-1865. New York: Library of America, 1990.

McMaster, John Bach. The Life, Memoirs, Military Career, and Death of General U.S. Grant. Philadelphia: Barclay, 1850.
McPherson, Edward. The Political History of the United States During the Period of  Reconstruction. Washington, D.C.: Philip and Solomons, 1871.

McWhiney, Grady. Battle in the Wilderness Grant Meets Lee. 1998.

Meives, Diane. Ulysses S. Grant Mistaken Identity.

Meredith, Roy. Mr. Lincoln's General U.S. Grant An Illustrated Autobiography. New York: Dutton, 1959.

Meredith, Roy. The World of Mathew Brady Portraits of The Civil War Period. 1976.

Meserve, Frederick Hill. Grant in the Wilderness. New York: Priv. Print., 1914.

Meyer, Howard. Let Us Have Peace: The Story of Ulysses S. Grant. New York: Collier, 1966.

Miers, Earl S. The Web of Victory Grant at Vicksburg. 1955.

Miers, Earl Schenck. The Last Campaign Grant Saves the Union. 1972.

Minack, Peter. Campaiging With Grant. Random House, Australia, 2000.

Monroe, Haskell. The Grant Papers. 1968.

Moran, P. Ulysses S. Grant, Eighteen Twenty-two to Eighteen Eighty-five. Chronology,  Document, Bibliographical Aids. Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.: Oceana, 1968.

Mosier, John. Grant. Blackstone, Audio, Inc.

Murphy, Brian. Ulysses S. Grant. Brasseys UK Ltd, 2005.

Murphy, Capt. David A. General Ulysses S. Grant in Poetry & History. Oxford, Ohio, 1912.

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Naden, Corinne J. Civil War Ends: Assassination, Reconstruction, and the Aftermath. Austin, TX.: Raintree Steck-Vaughn, 2000.

Neillands, Robin H. Grant: The Man Who Won the Civil War. Cold Springs Press, 2004.

Nelson, William Javier. Almost A Territory: America's Attempt To Annex The Dominican Republic. Newark: University Of Delaware Press, 1990.
Nevins, Allan, Hamilton Fish: The Inner History of the Grant Administration. 2 vols. New York: Frederick Ungar, 1937.

Nicolay, Helen. The Boys' Life Ulysses S. Grant. New York: The Century Co., 1909.

Nolan, Jeannette Covert. The Story of Ulysses S. Grant. New York: Lynd Ward, 1952.

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O’Brien, Steven and Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. Ulysses S. Grant. New York: Chelsea House, 1991.

O'Bright, Alan W. & Kristen R. Marolf. The Farm on the Gravois: Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site, St. Louis, Missouri. Washington D.C.: National Park Service, 1999.

Okie, Howard S. General U.S. Grant, A Defense. 1970. 

Olgin, Joseph. Ulysses S. Grant: General and President. With illustrations by William Moyers.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1967.

Optic, Oliver. Our Standard Bearer Gen. Ulysses S. Grant. Lee & Sheppard Co., 1886.

O’Shei, Tim Ulysses S. Grant: Military Leader and President (Famous Figures of the Civil War Era). 2001.
Otis, James. The Navy Boys with Grant at Vicksburg. A.L. Burt Co., 1910.

Owens, Kenneth N. Galena, Grant and the Fortunes of War. Dekalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 1963.

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Packard, J.F. Grant's Tour Around The World. 1880.
Palmer, Loomis T. The Life of General Grant: His Early Life, Military Achievements, and History of His Civil Administration, His Sickness and Death. Chicago: Winters and  Stackhouse, 1885.
Parker, Arthur C. The Life of General Ely S. Parker, Last Great Sachem of the Iroquois and  General Grant’s Military Secretary. Buffalo: Buffalo Historical Society, 1919.

Parry, Richard. That Fateful Lighting A Novel of U.S. Grant. 2000.

Penniman, Major. The Tanner-Boy and How He Became Lieutenant-General. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1864.

Perley Poore, Tiffany, Hon. Ben, Rev. O.H. Life of U.S. Grant. 1885.

Perret, Geoffrey. Ulysses S. Grant Soldier & President. 1997.

Peterson & Brothers, T.B. Grant and Colfax. 1868.

Phelps, Charles A. Life and Public Services of General Ulysses S. Grant, from his Boyhood to the Present Time. New York: Lee and Shepard and Dillingham, 1868.
 
Pingry, Patricial.  The Story of Ulysses S. Grant. Ideals Childrens Books, 2005.

Pitkin, Thomas M. Grant. 1965.

Pitkin, Thomas M. The Captain Departs Ulysses S. Grant's Last Campaign. Carbondalte, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1973.

Pollard, Josephine. Our Hero General U.S. Grant; When, Where and How He Fought. McLoughlin Brothers, 1885.

Poore, Benjamin P., and O.H. Tiffany. Life of U.S. Grant. Philadelphia: Hubbard Brothers, 1885.

Porter, Horace. Campaigning With Grant. 1981.

Post, Jas. L. Reminiscences by Personal Friends of Gen. U.S. Grant and the History of Grant's Log Cabin. 1904.

Powell, William H. Ulysses S. Grant. St. Louis, 1886.

Purdy, Stanley K. The Grant Articles Vol. 1. 1997.

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Quick, Robert R. Ulysses S. Grant: Rhetoric and Reticence. Northern Illinois University (Thesis, M.A.), 1968.

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Reed, Samuel Rockwell. The Vicksburg Campaign and the Battles About Chattanooga Under  the Command of General U.S. Grant in 1862-1863: An Historical Review. Cincinnati: R. Clarke, 1882.

Reeder, Col. Red. The Northern Generals. Deull, Sloan & Pearce, 1964.

Reeder, Col. Red. Ulysses S. Grant. Champaign, Ill.: Garrard Pub. Co., 1964. 

Reinert, Eric A. Grant's Tomb. 1997.

Reitz, Earl F. American Gold Mettle. A Sentient Perspective of Ulysses Grant. Louisa, FL.: Xenolith Press, 1994.

Remlap, L.T.  General U.S. Grant, His Life and Public Services.  1885.

Remlap, L.T. General U.S. Grant's Tour Around the World.  1879.

Repp, Stephen. Ulysses S. Grant, The Galena Years. 1985.

Rhea, Gordon C. To the North Anna River: Grant and Lee, May 13-25, 1864. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2000.

Rice, Earle. Ulysses S. Grant Defender of the Union. Morgan Reynolds Publishing, 2005.

Richardson, Albert D. Personal History of Ulysses S. Grant. Hartford CT: American Publ. Co., 1868.

Richardson, Charles B. Our Great Captains: Grant, Sherman, Thomas, Sheridan and Farragut. New York, 1865.

Richardson, James D. Messages and Papers of Ulysses S. Grant in Messages and Papers of   the Presidents. Washington: Bureau of National Literature and Art, 1910.
Rickerby, Laura A. Ulysses S. Grant and the Strategy of Victory. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Silver Burdett, 1991.

Ridpath, John Clark. The Citizen Soldier. 1892.

Riehecky, Janet.  Ulysses S. Grant. Childrens Press, 2004.

Ringwalt, John Luther. Anecdotes of General Ulysses S. Grant, Illustrating His Military and  Political Career and His Personal Traits. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1886.

Roberts, Benjamin Stone. Lieut.-General U. S. Grant, his services and characteristics, as sketched and delivered by Major-Gen. B.S. Roberts, before the faculty and students of Yale college ... October, 1865, and again read to the legislature of Connecticut ... in 1866, at its session at New Haven, Conn. New Haven, Printed by T.J. Stafford, 1869.

Robinson, H.E. Grant: American Ancestry of U.S. Grant. Higginson Book Company, 1993.

Rockwell & Churchill Press. Memorial of General Ulysses S. Grant. 1885.

Ross, Ishbel. The General's Wife. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1959.

Royster, Charles. ed. Civil War Memoirs. By Ulysses S. Grant, W.T. Sherman. Boxed set edition. 1990.

Russell, Lawrence T. Civil War Generals.

Ruth, John Lowry. The Wives of the Presidents.

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Sammon, Paul. At Home With General U.S. Grant in Galena, Illinois.

Sauers, Victoria. Ulysses S. Grant - Personal Reflections. Blue Bear Press, 1998.

Scaturro, Frank J. President Grant Reconsidered. 1998.

Schench Miers, Earl. We Were There When Grant Met Lee at Appomattox. Grosset & Dunlap, 1960.

Schroeder, Patrick A. Thirty Myths About Lee's Surrender.  1998.

Scott, Myron. Ten Generations of Grants. Washington, D.C.: privately published, 1971.

Scott, Walter. Heroes of the Great Republic. 1890.

Sefton, James E. The United States Army and Reconstruction, 1865-1877. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1967.

Seifert, Shirley. Captain Grant. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1946.

Shaara, Jeff M. The Last Full Measure. Random House Incorporated, 1999.

Sherrill, Lieut. Col. Clarence O. The Grant Memorial In Washington. 1924.

Shrady, George F. General Grant’s Last Days. New York: privately published, 1908.

Siegel, Charles G. No Backward Step A Guide to Grant's Campaign in Virginia. 2000.

Simon, John Y. Grant and Halleck; Contrasts in Command. Milwaukee, WI.: Marquette University Press, 1996.

Simon, John Y. Lincoln and Grant. Madison, WI. : Lincoln Fellowship of Wisconsin, 1984.

Simon, John Y. The Papers of Ulysses S.Grant: Volumes 1 - 29. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press.

Simpson, Brooks D. Let Us Have Peace. 1991.

Simpson, Brooks D. The Rise of U.S. Grant. 1996.

Simpson, Brooks D. Ulysses S. Grant Triumph Over Adversity, 1822-1865. 2000.

Skimin, Robert. Ulysses: A Biographical Novel of U.S. Grant. NY: St. Martin's Press/Thomas Dunne Book, 1994.

Smith, Ambrose C. General Ulysses S. Grant. 1885.

Smith, Colonel Nicholas. Grant, the Man of Mystery. Milwaukee: Young Churchman Co., 1909.

Smith, Gene. Lee & Grant. The Easton Press, 1984.

Smith, Jean Edward. Grant. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001.
Smith, William F. From Chattanooga to Petersburg Under Generals Grant and Butler: A Contribution to the History of the War, and a Personal Vindication. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1893.

Smyth, Clifford. Ulysses S. Grant, whose motto was "Let Us Have Peace". New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1931.

Stackpole, General Edward J. They Met At Gettysburg. 1956.

Steere, Edward. The Wilderness Campaign. The Meeting of Grant and Lee. Introduction by Robert Krick. Mechanicsburg, PA.: Stackpole, 1994.
Steins, Richard. Lincoln, Johnson, and Grant. Vero Beach, FL.: Rourke, 1996.
Stevens, Walter B. Grant in St. Louis, from Letters in the Manuscript Collection of William K. Bixby. St. Louis: Franklin Club, 1916.

Stevenson, Augusta. U.S. Grant Young Horseman. New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company,  1947.

Stoddard, Henry L. As I Knew Them: Presidents From Grant to Coolidge. Harper & Bros., 1927.

Stoddard, William O. Ulysses S. Grant. New York: White, Stokes & Allen, 1886.

Sturgis, S.D. The Other Side, as Viewed by General Grant, Sherman, and Other Distinguished  Officers, Being a defense of His Campaign into N.E. Mississippi in the Year 1864. Washington D.C., 1882.
Summers, Mark W. Railroads, Reconstruction, and the Gospel of Progress: Aid Under the  Radical Republicans, 1865-1877. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984.
Swift, John L. About Grant. New York: C.T. Dillingham, 1880.
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Tatum, Lawrie. Our Red Brothers and The Peace Policy of President Ulysses S. Grant. 1970.
Taussig, William. Personal Recollections of General Grant. St. Louis: Missouri Historical Society Publications, 1903.

Temple, Dr. Wayne C. Lincoln's arms, dress and military duty during and after the Black Hawk War ; Ulysses S. Grant in the military service for the State of Illinois. Springfield: State of Illinois, Military and Naval Dept., Public Affairs and Retention-Recruiting Section, 1981.

Thayer, William M. Story of the Life of General Grant.  1885.

Thayer, William M. From Tannery To The White House-The Life Of Ulysses S. Grant. 1885.

The Grand Army of the Republic. The Statue of General Ulysses S. Grant. 1900.

The Library of Historical Briefs. Ulysses S. Grant.  1976.

Thomas, Benjamin P. (ed). Three Years with Grant, As Recalled by War Correspondent Sylvanus Cadwallander. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1956.

Thomas, Henry. Ulysses S. Grant. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1961.

Thompson, Margaret Susan. The "Spider Web" Congress and Lobbying in the Age of Grant.  Ithaca, New York.: Cornell University Press, 1985.

Tierney, Tom. Ulysses S. Grant and His Family Paper Dolls.  1995.

Todd, Helen. A Man Named Grant.  Boston: Houghton, Mifflin Company, 1940.

Truesdale, Captain John. The Blue Coats. Jones Brothers & Co., 1867.

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Ulysses S. Grant : essays and documents / edited by David L. Wilson, John Y. Simon. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1981.

U.S. Grant, the man and the image : an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery ... 1985, and at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum ... 1986 / James G. Barber ; with an essay by John Y. Simon. Washington : The Gallery ; Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 1985.

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Van Orden, W.H. Life of General U.S. Grant. Street & Street, circa 1900.

Venezia, Mike. Ulysses S. Grant. Children's Press, 2005.

Vidal, Gore. 1876. Random House, 1976.

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Walsh, George. Whip the Rebellion, Ulysses S. Grant's Rise to Command. Forge, 2005.

Waryncia, Lou & Sarah Elder Hale. Ulysses S. Grant. Muze, Inc., 1995-2006.

Welsbacher, Anne. Ulysses S. Grant / Anne Welsbacher. Minneapolis : Abdo & Daughters, 2001.

Wensyel, James W. "Skip". Appomattox: The Passing of the Armies. White Mane Books, 2000.

Westwood, Howard C. Illinois Historical Journal: Autumn 1986. "Grant's Role in Beginning Black Soldiery", Springfield, IL.: Illinois State Historical Society, 1986.
 
White, Charles T. Grant’s Tribute to Lincoln. Brooklyn, N.Y.: Macmillan, 1932.

Willett, Edward. The life of Ulysses S. Grant, General, U.S.A.: comprising the story of his early year; of his cadetship and experience in the war with Mexico; the narrative of his business experiences, and a complete history of his memorable services in the War for the Union. New York: Beadle and Adams, 1885.

Williams, Kenneth P. Grants Rises in the West: From Iuka to Vicksburg, 1862-1863. 1997

Williams, Kenneth P. Lincoln Finds A General Vol. I & II.  1949.

Williams, T. Harry. McClellan, Sherman, and Grant. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1962.
Wilson, James Grant. General Grant. New York: D. Appleton, 1897.
Wilson, James Grant. The Life and Campaigns of Ulysses Simpson Grant: General-in-Chief of  the United States Army. New York: R.M. DeWitt, 1885.
Wilson, James H. The Life of John A. Rawlins: Lawyer, Assistant Adjutant General, Chief of Staff, Major General of Volunteers, and Secretary of War. New York: Neale, 1916.

Wister, Owen. U.S. Grant and the Seven Ages of Washington. MacMillian Co., 1928.

Wister, Owen. Ulysses S. Grant. Boston: Small, Maynard and Co., 1909.

Wilson, Simon, David L., John Y. Ulysses S. Grant: Essays and Documents.  1981.

Wittemann, Adolph. Grant Album. 1885.

Woodward, W.E. Meet General Grant. New York: Liveright Publishing, 1928.

Woodworth, Steven E. ed. Grant’s Lieutenants; From Cairo to Vicksburg. University of Kansas Press, 2001.
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Young, Bob. Reluctant Warrior: Ulysses S. Grant. New York: Julian Messner, 1971.

Young, John Russell.  Around the World with General Grant.  New York: American News Company, 1879.

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Zadra, Dan. Ulysses S. Grant: General and President, 1822-1885. Mankato, MN.: Creative
Education, 1988.

Zeman, Adolf. President Grant. Ceskoslovenska odyssea, 1920.

Zorn, Walter Lewis. The Descendants of the Presidents of the United States of America. 1955.

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