(nicknamed “Buck”) had entered into a business partnership with Ferdinand Ward, a popular banker and investor who was nicknamed “The Young Napoleon of Finance.” Buck asked his father if he would be interested in joining the partnership. He even declined suggestions from his friend Mark Twain about writing his memoirs.Ī significant event dramatically changed Grant’s mind, however. When the editors of Century Magazine requested his participation in their “Battles and Leaders of the Civil War” article series, Grant politely declined. “It’s all in Badeau,” Grant would often say. A former Adjutant General of Grant’s, Adam Badeau, had already written a three-volume collection about Grant’s generalship. Believing that he was a poor writer, Grant consistently refused to do anything of the kind. Grant continually encouraged him to do the same. For many years after the Civil War, friends, family, and associates of Ulysses S. In the late 1870s and 1880s, a growing number of Civil War veterans-from all ranks of service and from both sides of the conflict-began telling their wartime stories to a larger audience through published memoirs.
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