BADEAU, Adam. [Ulysses S. Grant].
Military History of Ulysses S. Grant, From April, 1861, to April, 1865.
New York: D. Appleton and Company , 1885.
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Adam Badeau's Military History of Ulysses S. Grant; Inscribed by Badeau in the Year of Publication
Finely bound editions of Badeau’s important “eyewitness estimation of Grant’s performance during the war,” a continuation of Grant's Personal Memoirs. Octavo, Vols. II and III of three volumes, original publisher's cloth stamped in gilt and black. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper of Vol. III in the year of publication, "James C. Hunter Esq with compliments of A Badeau Xmas 1885." In very good. Rare signed by Badeau.
Military History of Ulysses S. Grant by Union Brigadier General Adam Badeau—Grant’s aide-de-camp, close associate, and later literary collaborator—constitutes a substantial posthumous extension of Grant’s own narrative. Having served on Grant’s staff for much of the Civil War, Badeau had sustained access to official correspondence, operational planning, and internal military deliberations. Although Grant’s Personal Memoirs (1885–1886) were completed shortly before his death, Badeau assisted in their preparation and subsequently undertook a multi-volume study that expanded the documentary and analytical framework of Grant’s campaigns. Drawing upon wartime dispatches, reports, and private papers, the work presents a detailed operational history while also engaging contemporary debates concerning command decisions and strategic coherence. As a result, Military History of Ulysses S. Grant occupies an important position within late nineteenth-century Civil War historiography, combining firsthand administrative proximity with retrospective analysis grounded in documentary sources.
Military History of Ulysses S. Grant, From April, 1861, to April, 1865.
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