Our Standard-Bearer; Or, The Life of General Uysses S. Grant

The work presents a chronological, admiring life of a prominent military leader, tracing his youth, academy training, wartime experiences, and later public service while highlighting personal qualities such as modesty, perseverance, and patriotism. It combines narrative episodes of campaigns and command with anecdotes from contemporaries, assessments by the author and a close correspondent, and references to existing military histories. The tone is celebratory yet intends to rest on documented incidents and comparisons with other eminent figures, aiming to explain the subject's character and conduct to readers during his public emergence.