The True Ulysses S. Grant.

KING, Charles [William Tecumseh Sherman].

$475.00

Item Number: 145931

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1914.

First edition of this biography of soldier, statesman, and president Ulysses S. Grant; from the library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece portrait of Grant as Major-General Commanding in the West, illustrated with twenty-eight black and white photographs. P. T. Sherman’s bookplate to the front pastedown beneath his ownership signature. Accompanied by a Lexington Hand-Colored postcard, illustrated with a portrait of General Robert E. Lee. In very good condition with light rubbing to the spine, front and rear panels. General William Tecumseh Sherman’s son P. T. Sherman was a lawyer in New York, specializing in labor and insurance, and was elected a member of the New York Board of Alderman in the late 1880s. In the early 1900s, he was appointed the New York Commissioner of Labor. He transferred his library to his niece, Eleanor Sherman Fitch, the granddaughter of General Sherman through his eldest daughter, Maria “Minnie” Ewing Sherman Fitch, before he died. Until now, this book was held at the family estate in Washington County, Pennsylvania. An excellent association.

General Charles King was an American soldier and a distinguished writer who served in the Army during the Indian Wars under George Crook. He became acquainted with Buffalo Bill Cody after being wounded at the Battle of Sunset Pass and retiring as a captain. In 1898, he was appointed brigadier general of volunteers and sailed to the Philippines during the Spanish–American War, and during the following Philippine–American War, King was placed in command of the 1st Brigade in Henry W. Lawton's division. 'The True Ulysses S. Grant' is among his most notable literary works.