Dying of cancer, and destitute, Grant decided to write his memoirs to support his family. Publishers offered him little, but a fellow named Sam Clemens decided to help his old friend. The Memoirs, completed only four days before his death, rank among the best-known of military memoirs, and brought his family out of poverty.

Abraham Lincoln 1861 - 1865
Rutherford B. Hayes 1877 - 1881

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