The Project Gutenberg EBook of Ulysses S. Grant, by Walter Allen

This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org

Title: Ulysses S. Grant

Author: Walter Allen

Release Date: March 22, 2009 [EBook #28386]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ULYSSES S. GRANT ***

Produced by Martin Pettit and the Online Distributed
Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was
produced from images generously made available by The
Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

The Riverside Biographical Series

NUMBER 7

ULYSSES S. GRANT

BY

WALTER ALLEN

* * * * *

The Riverside Biographical Series

ANDREW JACKSON, by W. G. BROWN
JAMES B. EADS, by LOUIS HOW
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, by PAUL E. MORE
PETER COOPER, by R. W. RAYMOND
THOMAS JEFFERSON, by H. C. MERWIN
WILLIAM PENN, by GEORGE HODGES
GENERAL GRANT, by WALTER ALLEN.
MERIWETHER LEWIS AND WILLIAM
CLARK, by WILLIAM R. LIGHTON.
JOHN MARSHALL, by JAMES B. THAYER.

Each about 100 pages, 16mo, with photogravure portrait, 75 cents;
_School Edition_, 50 cents, _net_

HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO.

BOSTON AND NEW YORK

* * * * *

[Illustration: U. S. Grant]

* * * * *

ULYSSES S. GRANT

BY

WALTER ALLEN

[Illustration: Publisher's logo]

BOSTON AND NEW YORK

HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY

The Riverside Press, Cambridge

1901

* * * * *

COPYRIGHT, 1901, BY WALTER ALLEN

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

* * * * *

CONTENTS

CHAP. PAGE

I. OUR NATIONAL MILITARY HERO 1

II. HIS ANCESTRY 5

III. THE PERIOD OF YOUTH 11

IV. HIS LIFEWORK APPOINTED 18

V. LOVE AND WAR 26

VI. YEARS OF DORMANT POWER 34

VII. THE SUMMONS OF PATRIOTISM 42

VIII. FROM SPRINGFIELD TO FORT DONELSON 46

I