The childhood of Ulysses Grant --
Boy life in Georgetown --
Ulysses goes to boarding-school --
Ulysses enters West Point Academy --
The trials of a plebe --
Vacation-time --
Last days at West Point --
Grant's first command --
Grant's courtship --
Call to war --
Grant's first battle --
Quartermaster's duties fall to Grant --
Grant joins General Scott --
The wonderful inland march --
Grant at Molino del Rey --
Close of the war --
Grant's marriage --
Lieutenant Grant is ordered to the coast --
Grant is promoted but resigns --
Captain Grant turns farmer --
Grant tries to make a living in St Louis --
Captain Grant goes north --
The first war meetings in Galena --
Captain Grant and the political colonels --
Grants growing command --
Grant captures national fame --
Grant put under arrest by General Halleck --
The Battle of Shiloh Church --
Grant captures Vicksburg --
Grant rescues Chattanooga --
Grant meets Lincoln and is made commander-in-chief --
The beginning of the end --
The assassination of Lincoln, the surrender of Johnston, and the grand review --
Grant protects his conquered foes --
The general takes a summer vacation --
Grant and reconstruction --
Grant as Secretary of War --
Grant saves the Union Party --
General Grant lays down the sword --
Grant in the White House --
Grants reëlection to the Presidency --
Grant's second term --
Days of great trials --
Grant as a private citizen goes abroad --
The third campaign opens --
The Grant & Ward failure --
The final year of life --
The death-watch in the wall.

General Grant. It is not, perhaps, everything that is understood by the word biography, but it tells the story of Ulysses Grant from his birth to his death. It is an at tempt at characterization. It has not been my intention to set down all the significant words and deeds of General Grant, nor to analyze all the official acts of President Grant, but to present the man Grant as he stands to-day before unbiased critics. If I succeed in making the reader a little better acquainted with his great and singular character, I shall feel that my larger purpose has been carried out. In order that I might secure the fullest understanding of my subject, I have visited every town wherein Ulysses Grant lived long enough to leave a distinct impression upon its citizens. This search for first-hand material took me at the start to southern Ohio, to Georgetown, his boy hood home, and to Ripley, and to Maysville, Kentucky, where he attended school in his youth. I also studied the records on file in the adjutants office at West Point, and the newspaper files in Washington, St. Louis, New York, Cincinnati, Detroit, Louisville, Chicago, Springfield, Ga lena, Cairo, Memphis, Vicksburg, New Orleans, Richmond, Monterey, and Mexico City. In all of these cities I sought for and obtained interviews from those who had known Ulysses Grant personally and had some significant message to impart. In order to realize the Mexican battle-fields, I visited Monterey, Vera Cruz, Jalapa, Perote, Puebla, Contreras, Churubusco, El Molino del Rey, and San Cosme.

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