18th President of the United States (1869-1877) and Commanding General of the Union Army (1822-1885). Oversaw the defeat of the Confederacy and led Reconstruction efforts. His Personal Memoirs (1885), written while dying of throat cancer, are widely considered among the finest military memoirs in the English language.
His military strategy secured the Union's victory in the Civil War; his Reconstruction presidency made significant attempts to protect African American civil rights; his Memoirs stand as a literary and historical masterwork.
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