Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant-By 1884, Ulysses S. Grant, former President of the United States and greatest Union general of the Civil War, was both dying of cancer and so deeply in debt that he had been forced to put up his Civil War medals as security for personal loans. In that year, he began to write his memoirs an undertaking the modest Grant had always before resisted in the hope that the resulting royalties might in some measure help to...