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The Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1, has an extended section, "About General Grant’s Memoirs"[1], describing Grant's financial particulars, at the end of

• losteverything 10y ago
  Love links that give diaries or first hand accounts. I always read summaries like this of Grant with some level of doubt. So just reading a chapter of Grants writing gives my interest and doubt direction. The part about the surrender is more worthy than a historical summary of his life (which always mentions he was broke). He on the fly included personal items to be taken by the confederates. How he realized most are farmers who needed their horses. And their sidearms. But don't take my work for it, read it yourself. That is why your post helps me so much. TY