When the editors of Century Magazine requested his participation in their “Battles and Leaders of the Civil War” article series, Grant politely declined. “It’s all in Badeau,” Grant would often say. A former Adjutant General of Grant’s, Adam Badeau, had already written a three-volume collection about Grant’s generalship. Believing that he was a poor writer, Grant consistently refused to do anything of the kind. Grant continually encouraged him to do the same. For many years after the Civil War, friends, family, and associates of Ulysses S. In the late 1870s and 1880s, a growing number of Civil War veterans-from all ranks of service and from both sides of the conflict-began telling their wartime stories to a larger audience through published memoirs.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |