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My Dearest Julia: The Wartime Letters of Ulysses S. Grant to His Wife

With an introduction by Ron Chernow More

The Civil War’s greatest general as you’ve never seen him before, in a revealing collection of letters to his wife Julia

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Many readers of Ulysses S. Grant’s brilliant Personal Memoirs are unaware that during his army years Grant wrote hundreds of intimate and revealing letters to his wife, Julia Dent Grant. Presented with an introduction by acclaimed biographer Ron Chernow, My Dearest Julia collects eighty-four of these letters, recording Grant’s first experiences under fire in Mexico, the aching homesickness that led him to resign from the peacetime army, and his rapid rise to high command during the Civil War. As Chernow writes, these letters “candidly portray Grant’s emotional state, showing his remarkable evolution from an insecure young soldier to a capable, self-confident general. A man so reserved in public needed a private outlet for his feelings, and his correspondence with Julia was the ideal repository for these confessions.”

Ron Chernow is the prizewinning author of seven books—including, most recently, the national best seller Grant_—and the recipient of the 2015 National Humanities Medal. His first book, _The House of Morgan, won the National Book Award, Washington: A Life won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography, and _Alexander Hamilton_—the inspiration for the Broadway musical—won the American History Book Prize. He resides in Brooklyn, New York.

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Introduction by Ron Chernow

LETTERS
Part I: June 4, 1844 to February 2, 1854
Part II : May 1, 1861 to April 25, 1865
Coda: June 29, 1885

Biographical Notes
Sources And Acknowledgments
Index

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