First published as a Norton paperback 1982 Frontispiece: Photograph of Ulysses S. Grant taken in Matbew Brady's studio. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Copyright © 1981 by William S. McFeely Printed in the United States of America. All Rights Reserved Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data McFeely. William S Grant: a biography. Bibliography: p. Includes index. I. Grant, Ulysses Simpson, Pres. U.S., 1822- 1885. 2. United States—History— Civil War, 1861- 1865—Campaigns and battles. 3. United States—Politics and government— 1869- 1877. 4. Presidents— United States—Biography. E672.M15 1981 973.8' 2' 0924 [B] 80-25279 ISBN 0-393-30046-3 W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 500 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10110 W. W. Norton & Company Ltd., 10 Coptic Street, London WC1A 1PU 0 Epigraph for chapter X: Copyright © 1974 by Richard Wilbur. Reprinted from "The Fourth of July" in his volume The Mind-Reader by permission of Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc. Originally published in The New Yorker. |