Book/Printed Material Ulysses S. Grant, Copy 1
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Image 1 of Copy 1 ee C i AWVERSIDE BroGRAPHICAL SERIES Be 7 ULYSSES SGRANT WALTER ALLEN- Contributor: Allen, Walter
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Image 3 of Copy 1 Che MUiverside Wiographical Series NUMBER 7 ULYSSES 8 GRANT BY WALTER ALLEN- Contributor: Allen, Walter
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Image 5 of Copy 1 ULYSSES 8 GRANT BY WALTER ALLEN A Niet 6 UH oh CF gre er STA Le ESA 20 8 Si 9 2 vere o 9 a7 5 5 JERE TA ei ae…- Contributor: Allen, Walter
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Image 6 of Copy 1 o0neoe aeo eo Py THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Two Copies REcEIvED APR 29 1901 COPYRIGHT ENTRY cine eve 1h LASS Q xXXc Ne SRIZ COPY 8 é a 4 A f aes…- Contributor: Allen, Walter
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Image 7 of Copy 1 SO TE CHAP XIII XIV XV XVI XVII XVIII XIX CONTENTS Our Nationa Minirary Hero II III IV LOVE AND WAR VI VEE WET 1D VICKSBURG XI XII His ANCESTRY THE PERIOD…- Contributor: Allen, Walter
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Image 9 of Copy 1 ULYSSES SIMPSON GRANT CHAPTER I OUR NATIONAL MILITARY HERO SINCE the end of the civil war in the United States whoever has occasion to name the three most distinguished representatives of our…- Contributor: Allen, Walter
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Image 10 of Copy 1 2 ULYSSES SIMPSON GRANT the magnitude of the interests at stake but not in the vital importance of the issue was far inferior to the civil war It happens quite naturally as…- Contributor: Allen, Walter
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Image 11 of Copy 1 OUR NATIONAL MILITARY HERO 3 Whether he was a greater soldier than General Robert E Lee the commanderin chief of the army of the Confederate States is a question on which there…- Contributor: Allen, Walter
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Image 12 of Copy 1 4 ULYSSES SIMPSON GRANT must be told that are not at all heroic Much as it might be wished that he had been what Carlyle says a hero should be a hero…- Contributor: Allen, Walter
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Image 13 of Copy 1 CHAPTER II HIS ANCESTRY Tuts hero of ours was of an excellent an cestry Until lately most Americans have been careless of preserving their family rec ords That they were Americans and…- Contributor: Allen, Walter
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Image 14 of Copy 1 6 ULYSSES SIMPSON GRANT that no one should take credit to himself on account of distant ancestry Not until Abraham Lincoln had honored his name by his own nobility did anybody think…- Contributor: Allen, Walter
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Image 15 of Copy 1 HIS ANCESTRY 7 its prowess in war The chiefs of the clan had armorial crests of which the conspicuous emblem was commonly a burning mountain and the motto some expression of unyielding…- Contributor: Allen, Walter
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Image 16 of Copy 1 8 ULYSSES SIMPSON GRANT White Plains in 1776 His grandfather Noah was a lieutenant in a company of the Connecticut militia which marched to the succor of Massachusetts in the beginning of…- Contributor: Allen, Walter
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Image 17 of Copy 1 HIS ANCESTRY 9 ous respectable character like the Grants Thus in the parents of General Grant were united strains of one of the strong races of the world sound in body mind…- Contributor: Allen, Walter
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Image 18 of Copy 1 10 ULYSSES SIMPSON GRANT while he lived in Ohio he was a farmer a trader a contractor for buildings and roads as well as a tanner When he reached the age of…- Contributor: Allen, Walter
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Image 19 of Copy 1 CHAPTER III THE PERIOD OF YOUTH Or such ancestry General Grant was born April 27 1822 in Point Pleasant Ohio and was named Hiram Ulysses Grant A pic ture of the house…- Contributor: Allen, Walter
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Image 20 of Copy 1 12 ULYSSES SIMPSON GRANT dustry and mutual helpfulness made true homes and bred useful citizens In the next year his parents removed to the village of Georgetown Ohio in Brown County where…- Contributor: Allen, Walter
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Image 21 of Copy 1 THE PERIOD OF YOUTH 13 a time when a large part of all traveling was done on horseback As General Grant be came famous at a comparatively early age a large crop…- Contributor: Allen, Walter
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Image 22 of Copy 1 14 ULYSSES SIMPSON GRANT had visited Cincinnati fortyfive miles away several times alone also Maysville Ky often and once Louisville I did not like to work but I did as much of…- Contributor: Allen, Walter
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Image 23 of Copy 1 THE PERIOD OF YOUTH 15 two and a half and if that would not get him to give the twentyfive I at once mounted a horse and went for the colt When…- Contributor: Allen, Walter
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Image 24 of Copy 1 16 ULYSSES SIMPSON GRANT was able to pass the not very severe entrance examination without trouble He seems to have had good native powers of perception reasoning and memory What he learned…- Contributor: Allen, Walter
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Image 25 of Copy 1 THE PERIOD OF YOUTH 17 and driving about the country His work had made him acquainted with the subjects in which grown men were interested The family life was serious but not…- Contributor: Allen, Walter
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Image 26 of Copy 1 CHAPTER IV HIS LIFEWORK APPOINTED WHEN the boy was about seventeen years old he had made up his mind upon one mat ter he would not be a tanner for life He…- Contributor: Allen, Walter
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Image 27 of Copy 1 HIS LIFEWORK APPOINTED 19 Without consulting his son he wrote to one of the United States Senators from Ohio Hon Thomas Morris telling him that there was a vacancy in the districts…- Contributor: Allen, Walter
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Image 28 of Copy 1 20 ULYSSES SIMPSON GRANT Little did Congressman Thomas L Hamer imagine that in doing this favor for his friend Jesse Grant he was doing the one thing that would secure remembrance of…- Contributor: Allen, Walter
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Image 29 of Copy 1 HIS LIFEWORK APPOINTED 21 his name by an accident was permanently changed When Congressman Hamer was asked for the full name of his protégé to be inserted in the warrant he knew…- Contributor: Allen, Walter
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Image 30 of Copy 1 22 ULYSSES SIMPSON GRANT no special dignity of carriage he was only a common sort of pleb modest goodnatured respectful companionable but soberminded observant but undemonstrative willing but not ardent trusty but…- Contributor: Allen, Walter
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Image 31 of Copy 1 HIS LIFEWORK APPOINTED 23 willing to toil for it He gave time to other things not in the routine prescribed He pursued a generous course of reading in modern English fiction including…- Contributor: Allen, Walter
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Image 32 of Copy 1 24 ULYSSES SIMPSON GRANT him as a very unclelike sort of a youth He exhibited but little enthusiasm in anything He was graduated in 18438 at the age of 21 years ranking…- Contributor: Allen, Walter
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Image 33 of Copy 1 HIS LIFEWORK APPOINTED 25 course spent at home he steadily declined all invitations to partake of intoxicants the reason assigned being that he with others had pledged themselves not to drink at…- Contributor: Allen, Walter
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Image 34 of Copy 1 CHAPTER V LOVE AND WAR He had applied for an appointment in the dragoons the designation of the one regi ment of cavalry then a part of our army His alternative selection…- Contributor: Allen, Walter
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Image 35 of Copy 1 LOVE AND WAR 27 winter young Grant found the Dent home stead more attractive than ever This was the time of the agitation regard ing the annexation of Texas a policy to…- Contributor: Allen, Walter
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Image 36 of Copy 1 28 ULYSSES SIMPSON GRANT was winning honor and promotion After peace was declared and the regiment had returned to the States they were married She shared all his vicissitudes of fortune until…- Contributor: Allen, Walter
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Image 37 of Copy 1 LOVE AND WAR 29 pus Christi a trading and smuggling port There the army of occupation of Texas was slowly collected consisting of about three thousand men commanded by Gen eral Zachary…- Contributor: Allen, Walter
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Image 38 of Copy 1 30 ULYSSES SIMPSON GRANT Volunteers for the war now began coming from the States In August the movement on Monterey began and on the 19th of September Taylors army was encamped before…- Contributor: Allen, Walter
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Image 39 of Copy 1 LOVE AND WAR 31 storming of Chapultepec said Lieutenant Grant 4th Infantry acquitted himself most nobly upon several occasions under my own observation After the battle of Molino del Rey he was…- Contributor: Allen, Walter
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Image 40 of Copy 1 32 ULYSSES SIMPSON GRANT Lieutenant Pemberton the same who in the civil war defended Vicksburg to bring Grant to him The general complimented Lieutenant Grant on the execution his gun was doing…- Contributor: Allen, Walter
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About this Item
Title
- Ulysses S. Grant,
Names
- Allen, Walter, 1840-1907
Created / Published
- Boston, New York, Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1901.
Headings
- - Grant, Ulysses S.--(Ulysses Simpson),--1822-1885
Notes
- - Also available in digital form.
- - Also available in digital form.
Medium
- 3 p. l., 153 p., 1 l. front. (port.) 18 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- E672 .A43
Library of Congress Control Number
- 01031811
OCLC Number
- 4387274
Online Format
- online text
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