Private Memoirs of U. S. Grant

“Man proposes and God disposes.” There are however few essential occasions within the

affairs of males led to by their very own alternative.

Though incessantly urged by associates to jot down my memoirs I had decided

by no means to take action, nor to jot down something for publication. On the age of almost sixty-

two I obtained an damage from a fall, which con¯ned me carefully to the home

whereas it didn’t apparently have an effect on my basic well being. This made research a pleasing

pastime.