Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant.

First edition of the autobiography of Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th President of the United States, which focusing mainly on his military career during the Mexican War and the Civil War. Octavo, 2 volumes, original green cloth with title and front panel in gilt, illustrated with numerous steel engravings, facsimiles, and 43 maps. From the library of Brevet General Anson McCook with his signature. McCook was a military and political figure who served as Union Army colonel during the Civil War. He saw combat in the First Battle of Bull Run, the Army of the Comberland, Perryville, Stones River, Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge. He served Grant and Sherman in the Atlanta Campaign, and later served in the Shenandoah Valley, under Sheridan. In recognition of his service, in 1866, he was nominated and confirmed for appointment to the grade of brevet brigadier general of volunteers. In civilian life, he was an attorney and three-term postbellum U.S. Congressman from New York. He was a member of the “Fighting McCooks,” one of America's most prolific military families during the Civil War. In good condition.