General Grant, Vicksburg, and Perserverance

It was on this date, May 19, 1863, that General Ulysses S. Grant began his assault on the Confederate stronghold at Vicksburg, Mississippi. Although his troops made a daring run past the Confederate batteries, they failed to overwhelm the city. With Union gunboats on the river and trenches surrounding the city, Grant's soldiers settled down to a six-week siege.

On July 4th, Confederate General John C. Pemberton, and his 30,000 troops surrendered. Vicksburg was a major point in the the Civil War. Grant's victory gained control of the Mississippi River for the Union, and geographically divided the Confederacy.

Ulysses S. Grant is one of the most misunderstood of American presidents. Today, he is often remembered for his purported weakness for drink, and his scandal-ridden presidency. However, in his day, he was considered a national hero and savior of the Union...and was more popular than Abraham Lincoln.

Ulysses Grant's most courageous act came during the last year of his life. In 1884, Grant and his family were destitute as a result of a financial fraud and business failure. That same year, he was diagnosed with terminal throat cancer. Racing against  the clock and enduring searing pain, Grant wrote his personal memoirs, which he hoped would provide financial security for his family. Grant completed the text just days before his death on July 23, 1885.

With more than 325,000 copies sold, the selling of Grant's memoirs was recognized as one of the most successful book campaigns of the 19th century...that eventually earned the Grant family more than $400,000. It was also a huge literary success...Gertrude Stein thought that Grant's memoirs  were one of the pre-eminent American works of the century.

"Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any fondness for war, and I have never advocated it except as a means of peace."...Ulysses Simpson Grant

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