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 IX. SHILOH, CORINTH, IUKA 57 X. VICKSBURG 65 XI. NEW RESPONSIBILITIES--CHATTANOOGA 77 XII. LIEUTENANT-GENERAL, COMMANDER OF ALL THE ARMIES 85 XIII. THE WILDERNESS AND SPOTTSYLVANIA 95 XIV. FROM SPOTTSYLVANIA TO RICHMOND 104 XV. IN WASHINGTON AMONG POLITICIANS 114 XVI. HIS FIRST ADMINISTRATION 123 XVII. HIS SECOND ADMINISTRATION 133 XVIII. THE TOUR OF THE WORLD 144 XIX. REVERSES OF FORTUNE--ILL HEALTH--HIS LAST VICTORY--THE END 149 ULYSSES SIMPSON GRANT CHAPTER I OUR NATIONAL MILITARY HERO