Autobiography of Ulysses S. Grant, who served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War, and was a Union general during the Civil War. This autobiography deals chiefly with his service during the Civil War. It does not deal with Ulysses S. Grant during his terms as the eighteenth president of the United States, serving between 1869 and 1877.

Vol. 1 includes maps of: Monterey and Its Approaches; Valley of Mexico; Battlefield near Belmont; Relative Positions of Fort Henry and Fort Donelson; Fort Donelson; Field of Shiloh; Country about Corinth, Mississippi; Battles of Iuka and Corinth; Vicksburg Campaign; Bruinsburg, Port Gibson, and Grand Gulf; Country about Jackson, Mississippi; Battle of Champion's Hill; Battlefield of Big Black River Bridge; Siege of Vicksburg; Line of Defences - Vicksburg to Haine's Bluff and Black River Bridge. Vol. 2 includes maps of: Knoxville, Nashville, and Chattanooga; Chattanooga and Vicinity; Battlefield of Chattanooga; Meridian Campaign; Bermuda Hundred; Sherman's Campaign - Chattanooga to Atlanta; Siege of Atlanta; Wilderness Campaign; Battle of the Wilderness; Country between the Wilderness and Spotsylvania Courthouse; Battle of Spotsylvania; Battle of North Anna; Operations between the Pamunkey and the James Rivers; Central Virginia; Battle of Cold Harbor; Richmond; Shenandoah Valley Campaign; Sherman's March to the Sea; Nashville Campaign South; Fort Fisher; Sherman's March North; Petersburg and Five Forks; Appomattox Campaign; Jetersville and Sailor's Creek; High Bridge and Farmville; Appomattox Courthouse; Defenses of the City of Mobile; Seat of War, 1861-1865. Includes appendix and index.