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Ulysses S.
Grant, Civil War hero and 18th U.S. President, died on July 23, 1885, at age 63
from throat cancer at Mount McGregor in New York. Ruined by swindler Ferdinand
Ward's Ponzi scheme, the bankrupt Grant raced against agony to finish his
memoirs, aided by Mark Twain's generous 70% royalty deal.
Unable to speak or eat without agony, he penned 366,000 words in under a year, declaring on July 16, "nothing more... I am not likely to be more ready to go." He passed peacefully surrounded by family. He whispered "Let us have peace"—his tomb's inscription. Posthumous sales of his memoirs secured his wife’s future and cemented Grant's literary triumph.
CIVIL WAR CIVILIAN LIFE: MANASSAS, VIRGINIA
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