Source Documents
These are recommended readings for the student of Ulysses S. Grant and
Julia D. Grant. This list is not complete and more readings will be added in
the future.
1. John Y. Simon et al., eds., The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant, 31 vols. to date
(Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1967-Present)
2. Ulysses S. Grant, The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, 2 vols.
(New York: Charles L. Webster, 1885)
3. Julia D. Grant, The Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant,
ed. John Y. Simon (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1975)
4. Lloyd Lewis, Captain Sam Grant (Boston: Little Brown, 1950)
5. Brooks D. Simpson, Ulysses S. Grant: Triumph over Adversity, 1822-1865
(New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2000)
6. Brooks D. Simpson, Let Us Have Peace (University of North Carolina Press, 1991)
7. Joan Waugh, U.S. Grant: American Hero, American Myth,
(University of North Carolina Press, 2009)
8. J.F.C. Fuller, The Generalship of Ulysses S. Grant,
(1929; reprint, New York: Da Capo Press, 1991)
9. Horace Porter, Campaigning With Grant
(New York: Konecky & Konecky, 2000)
10. Bruce Catton, Grant Moves South (Boston: Little Brown, 1960)
11. Bruce Catton, Grant Takes Command (Boston: Little Brown, 1968)
12. Josiah Bunting III, Ulysses S. Grant (New York: Henry Holt, 2004)
13. Ballard, Michael B., U.S. Grant - The Making of a General, 1861-1863
(Lanham, Maryland, Rowman & Littlefield, 2005)
14. Ballard, Michael B., Vicksburg, The Campaign That Opened the Mississippi
(University of North Carolina Press, 2004)
15. Bonekemper, Edward H., A Victor Not A Butcher (Washington, D.C., Regnery Publishing, 2004)
