Grant

90. GPL. S2 B54 F37. Letter from Jesse A. Jones to Hamlin Garland, March 16, 1896.

  91. St. Louis Republican, July 24, 1885.

  92. Smith, Grant, 91.

  93. Stevens, Grant in St. Louis, 43.

  94. USGH. “Interview with James Longstreet.”

  95. Ibid.

  96. PUSG, 1:335. Letter to Jesse Root Grant, December 28, 1856.

  97. Simpson, Ulysses S. Grant, 68.

  98. Julia Grant, Memoirs, 91.

  99. Grant, Memoirs, 1:150.

  100. Young, Around the World, 284.

  101. Fish, “General Grant.”

  102. McFeely, Grant, 68.

  103. Grant, Memoirs, 1:143.

  104. Goodheart, 1861, 65.

  105. Julia Grant, Memoirs, 181.

  106. Simpson, Ulysses S. Grant, 71.

  107. Ibid., 67.

  108. Ross, The General’s Wife, 96.

  109. Perret, Ulysses S. Grant, 107.

  110. Garland, “Grant’s Life in Missouri.”

  111. GPL. S2 B54 F12. “Interview with Louisa Boggs.” HGP.

  112. Simpson, “Butcher? Racist?”

  113. GPL. S2 B54 F23. Letter from M. T. Burke to Hamlin Garland, September 26, 1896. HGP.

  114. PUSG, 1:337. Letter to Jesse Root Grant, February 7, 1857.

  115. Julia Grant, Memoirs, 162.

  116. Ross, The General’s Wife, 93.

  117. Julia Grant, Memoirs, 80.

  118. GPL. S2 B54 F12. “Interview with Louisa Boggs.” HGP.

  119. Grant, Memoirs, 2:473.

  120. “How Grant Got to Know Rawlins.” Army and Navy Journal, September 12, 1868.

  121. GPL. S2 B24 F12. “Interview with Mrs. Baker.” HGP.

  122. Julia Grant, Memoirs, 80.

  123. USGH. “Interview with Louisa Boggs.”

  124. Garland, “Grant’s Life in Missouri”; USGH. “Interview with Louisa Boggs.”

  125. GPL. S2 B54 F12. “Interview with Louisa Boggs.” HGP.

  126. Ibid.

  127. Wickenden, “Union Man.”

  128. Garland, “Grant’s Life in Missouri.”

  129. McFeely, Grant, 68–69.

  130. Young, Around the World, 375.

  131. Richardson, A Personal History, 155.

  132. The Macon [Missouri], January 24, 1917.

  133. Ross, The General’s Wife, 96.

  134. USGH. “Interview with Louisa Boggs.”

  135. PUSG, 1:346. Letter to Jesse Root Grant, March 12, 1859.

  136. Ibid., 347. “Manumission of Slave,” March 29, 1859.

  137. Stevens, Grant in St. Louis, 52.

  138. USGH. “Interview with Mary Robinson.”

  139. Taussig, “Personal Recollections of General Grant.”

  140. “Chat in Public Resorts.” New York Tribune, August 2, 1885.

  141. Julia Grant, Memoirs, 326.

  142. Grant, Memoirs, 1:142.

  143. Julia Grant, Memoirs, 482.

  144. Stevens, Grant in St. Louis, 58.

  145. Donald, Lincoln, 169.

  146. Grant, Memoirs, 1:142.

  147. Foote, The Civil War, 1:31.

  148. Grant, Memoirs, 1:19.

  149. Garland, “Grant’s Life in Missouri.”

  150. Julia Grant, Memoirs, 82.

  151. GPL. S2 B54 F25. “Interview with George W. Fishback.”

  152. Julia Grant, Memoirs, 82.

  153. PUSG, 1:355. Letter to Julia Dent Grant, March 14, 1860.

  154. GPL. S2 B5 F13. Letter from Jesse Root Grant to James G. Wilson, March 20, 1869.

  155. Ibid. S2 B54 F9. “Interview with Andrew M. Haines.” HGP.

  CHAPTER SIX: THE STORE CLERK

  1. Julia Grant, Memoirs, 83.

  2. The Revolution, March 3, 1869.

  3. Chicago Inter-Ocean, November 4, 1879.

  4. Julia Grant, Memoirs, 84.

  5. GPL. S2 B54 F23. Letter from M. T. Burke to Hamlin Garland, September 26, 1896. HGP.

  6. Grant, “My Father as I Knew Him.”

  7. USGH. “Interview with Melancthon T. Burke.”

  8. Troy Intelligencer, April 17, 1892.

  9. GPL. S2 B5 F20. “Interview with Julia Grant.” HGP.

  10. Cramer, Ulysses S. Grant, 31.

  11. Flood, Grant’s Final Victory, 217.

  12. PUSG, 1:359. Letter to Addressee Unknown, December 1860.

  13. GPL. S2 B54 F9. “Interview with Andrew M. Haines.” HGP.

  14. Garland, “Grant at the Outbreak of the War.”

  15. Troy Intelligencer, April 17, 1892.

  16. GPL. S2 B21 F5. Letter from Lawrence E. Blair to Lloyd Lewis, May 27, 1945. LLP.

  17. Troy Intelligencer, April 17, 1892.

  18. Ibid.

  19. Ibid.

  20. Grant, In the Days of My Father, 10–11.

  21. GPL. S2 B54 F9. “Interview with Melancthon T. Burke.” HGP.

  22. Ibid. S2 B21 F5. Letter from Lawrence E. Blair to Lloyd Lewis, May 21, 1945. LLP.

  23. Armstrong, Warrior in Two Camps, 84.

  24. Ibid., 73–74.

  25. Simpson, Ulysses S. Grant, 74.

  26. Armstrong, Warrior in Two Camps, 204.

  27. USGH. “Interview with Melancthon T. Burke.”

  28. Washburne, Biography, 491.

  29. Goodheart, 1861, 39.

  30. USGA Newsletter, July 1964.

  31. Grant, Memoirs, 1:144.

  32. Richardson, A Personal History, 166.

  33. PUSG, 1:357. Letter to Mr. Davis, August 7, 1860.

  34. Grant, Memoirs, 1:144.

  35. GPL. S2 B54 F23. Letter from M. T. Burke to Hamlin Garland, September 26, 1896. HGP.

  36. Ibid. S2 B54 F9. “Interview with M. T. Burke.” HGP.

  37. Julia Grant, Memoirs, 86.

  38. Perret, Ulysses S. Grant, 115.

  39. Garland, “Grant at the Outbreak of the War.”

  40. “How Grant Got to Know Rawlins.” Army and Navy Journal, September 12, 1868.

  41. Grant, Memoirs, 1:145.

  42. Stahr, Seward, 211.

  43. Grant, Memoirs, 1:146.

  44. PUSG, 32:17. Letter to Charles W. Ford, December 10, 1860.

  45. Vincent, “The Inner Life of Ulysses S. Grant.”

  46. Catton, The Coming Fury, 314.

  47. GPL. S2 B54 F10. “Interview with M. T. Johnson.” HGP.

  48. PUSG, 32:145. Letter from Jesse Root Grant to Salmon P. Chase, February 28, 1861.

  49. Foner, Fiery Trial, 155.

  50. Catton, The Coming Fury, 260.

  51. New York Herald, July 2, 1878.

  52. Goodheart, 1861, 177.

  53. Armstrong, Warrior in Two Camps, 76.

  54. McFeely, Grant, 73.

  55. Young, Around the World, 375.

  56. GPL. S2 B5 F20. “Interview with Julia Grant.” HGP.

  57. Farmer, National Exposition Souvenir, 59.

  58. Catton, Grant Moves South, 487–88.

  59. Garland, “Grant at the Outbreak of the War.”

  60. Wilson, Rawlins, 46.

  61. Richardson, A Personal History, 170.

  62. Ibid.

  63. Ferrier, “Memoir,” 23.

  64. Garland, “Grant at the Outbreak of the War.”

  65. Richardson, A Personal History, 171.

  66. Simpson, Ulysses S. Grant, 68; Garland, “Grant at the Outbreak of the War.”

  67. Garland, “Grant at the Outbreak of the War.”

  68. USGH. “Interview with Augustus Chetlain.”

>   69. PUSG, 2:3–4. Letter to Frederick Dent, April 19, 1861.

  70. Ibid., 7. Letter to Jesse Root Grant, April 21, 1861.

  71. Richardson, A Personal History, 173.

  72. Ferrier, “Memoir,” 23.

  73. Chetlain, “Reminiscences of General Grant.”

  74. “How Grant Got to Know Rawlins.” Army and Navy Journal, September 12, 1868.

  75. Vincent, “The Inner Life of Ulysses S. Grant.”

  76. PUSG, 2:9. Letter to Julia Dent Grant, April 27, 1861.

  77. Ibid., 13–14. Letter to Mary Grant, April 29, 1861.

  78. GPL. S2 B54 F23. Letter from M. T. Burke to Hamlin Garland, September 26, 1896. HGP.

  79. McCullough, Greater Journey, 278.

  80. Foner, Fiery Trial, 6.

  81. GPL. S2 B54 F7. “Talk by General Augustus Chetlain.” HGP.

  82. Washburne, Biography, 27.

  83. Simpson, Ulysses S. Grant, 82.

  84. USGH. “Interview with John Russell Young.”

  85. PUSG, 2:21. Letter to Jesse Root Grant, May 6, 1861.

  86. Grant, Memoirs, 1:157.

  87. Garland, “Grant at the Outbreak of the War.”

  88. McFeely, Grant, 74.

  89. PUSG, 2:24. Letter to Julia Dent Grant, May 6, 1861.

  CHAPTER SEVEN: THE QUIET MAN

  1. USGH. “Interview with Mary Robinson.”

  2. PUSG, 2:31. Letter to Julia Dent Grant, May 15, 1861.

  3. Stevens, Grant in St. Louis, 67.

  4. USGH. “Interview with Louisa Boggs.”

  5. Julia Grant, Memoirs, 87.

  6. Young, Around the World, 388–89.

  7. Ibid., 390.

  8. Smith, Grant, 105.

  9. Garland, “Grant at the Outbreak of the War.”

  10. The St. Louis Times, August 5, 1874.

  11. Galena Daily Advertiser, May 31, 1861.

  12. PUSG, 2:37. Letter to Jesse Root Grant, May 30, 1861.

  13. Ibid., 35. Letter to Bvt. Brig. Gen. Lorenzo Thomas, May 24, 1861.

  14. Julia Grant, Memoirs, 92.

  15. “Grant’s Only War Speech.” New York Tribune, September 27, 1885.

  16. Ibid.

  17. GPL. S2 B54 F10. “Interview with S. S. Boggs.” HGP.

  18. Richardson, A Personal History, 178.

  19. Simpson, Ulysses S. Grant, 84.

  20. Garland, “Grant at the Outbreak of the War.”

  21. GPL. S2 B54 F10. “Interview with S. S. Boggs.” HGP.

  22. “Grant’s Only War Speech.” New York Tribune, September 27, 1885.

  23. Garland, “Grant at the Outbreak of the War.”

  24. Smith, Grant, 111.

  25. Moore, “Grant’s First March.”

  26. PUSG, 2:59. Letter to Julia Dent Grant, July 7, 1861.

  27. Ibid., 62. “General Orders No. 24,” July 9, 1861.

  28. Ibid., 60. Letter to Julia Dent Grant, July 7, 1861.

  29. Crane, “Grant as a Colonel.”

  30. Ibid.

  31. Ibid.

  32. GPL. S2 B24 F14. “Interview with Captain Ed Garland.”

  33. Grant, Memoirs, 1:163.

  34. Ibid., 164.

  35. Paine, Mark Twain’s Notebook, 182.

  36. Stahr, Seward, 300.

  37. New York Herald, July 6, 1878.

  38. PUSG, 2:83. Letter to Julia Dent Grant, August 3, 1861.

  39. Crane, “Grant as a Colonel.”

  40. Ibid.

  41. PUSG, 2:81. Letter to Jesse Root Grant, August 3, 1861.

  42. Troy Intelligencer, April 17, 1892.

  43. Catton, Grant Moves South, 20.

  44. PUSG, 2:105. Letter to Mary Grant, August 12, 1861.

  45. Ibid.

  46. Thayer, “Grant at Pilot Knob.”

  47. Young, Around the World, 264.

  48. Thayer, “Grant at Pilot Knob.”

  49. PUSG, 2:97. Letter to Julia Dent Grant, August 10, 1861.

  50. Ibid., 128. Letter to Capt. Speed Butler, August 22, 1861.

  51. Grant, Memoirs, 1:170.

  52. Ibid., 171.

  53. Smith, Grant, 117.

  54. Thayer, “Grant at Pilot Knob.”

  55. PUSG, 2:149. Letter to Julia Dent Grant, August 29, 1861.

  56. Young, Around the World, 376.

  57. Richardson, A Personal History, 183.

  58. Grant, Memoirs, 1:173.

  59. Stevens, Grant in St. Louis, 85.

  60. Grant, Memoirs, 1:174.

  61. Catton, Grant Moves South, 52.

  62. Ibid., 4.

  63. Wilson, Rawlins, 428–29.

  64. Crane, “Grant as a Colonel.”

  65. LoC. JHWP. Letter from John A. Rawlins to Mary Rawlins, August 22, 1861.

  66. Ibid. Letter from John A. Rawlins to Mary Emma Rawlins, February 13, 1864.

  67. Armstrong, Warrior in Two Worlds, 74.

  68. GPL. S2 B21 F18. “Statement of Edward Rawlins.” LLP.

  69. Wilson, Rawlins, 24–25.

  70. PUSG, 2:207. “General Orders No. 5,” September 8, 1861.

  71. GPL. S2 B10 F66. “John A. Rawlins.” Pledge signed October 14, 1862.

  72. Simpson, Ulysses S. Grant, 279.

  73. “Gen. Grant’s Morality.” Chicago Daily Tribune, January 27, 1887.

  74. Wilson and Simon, Ulysses S. Grant, 119–120.

  75. Chicago Daily Tribune, September 1, 1885.

  76. GPL. S2 B24 F16. “Interview with Lieutenant Frank Parker.” HGP.

  77. “How Grant Got to Know Rawlins.” Army and Navy Journal, September 12, 1868.

  78. Washburne, Biography, 63.

  CHAPTER EIGHT: TWIN FORTS

  1. Foner, Fiery Trial, 169.

  2. Foote, The Civil War, 1:53.

  3. Perret, Ulysses S. Grant, 138.

  4. Grant, Memoirs, 1:175.

  5. PUSG, 2:194. “Proclamation, to the Citizens of Paducah!,” September 6, 1861.

  6. GPL. S2 B54 F9. “Interview with A. H. Markland.” HGP.

  7. PUSG, 3:23. Letter to Julia Dent Grant, October 6, 1861.

  8. Ibid., 2:214. Letter to Julia Dent Grant, September 8, 1861.

  9. Ibid.

  10. Julia Grant, Memoirs, 95.

  11. PUSG, 5:8. Letter to Julia Dent Grant, April 3, 1862.

  12. Ibid., 3:64. Letter to Julia Dent Grant, October 20, 1861.

  13. Smith, Grant, 127.

  14. PUSG, 3:137. Letter to Jesse Root Grant, November 8, 1861.

  15. Richardson, A Personal History, 191.

  16. Ibid.

  17. Grant, Memoirs, 1:180.

  18. Ibid., 82–83.

  19. GPL. S2 B54 F5. “Interview with William Lonergan.” HGP.

  20. Grant, Memoirs, 1:185.

  21. Ibid., 184.

  22. Catton, Grant Moves South, 79–80.

  23. PUSG, 3:130. “Orders,” November 8, 1861.

  24. McFeely, Grant, 93.

  25. Wilson, Rawlins, 66.

  26. Smith, Grant, 130.

  27. McFeely, Grant, 95.

  28. Richardson, A Personal History, 200.

  29. Young, Around the World, 391.

  30. Catton, Terrible Swift Sword, 68.

  31. Julia Grant, Memoirs, 93.

  32. Ibid.

  33. Ibid.

  34. Ibid.

  35. PUSG, 3:212. Letter to Capt. John C. Kelton, November 22, 1861.

  36. Ibid., 4:47. Letter to Brig. Gen. Montgomery C. Meigs, January 13, 1862.

  37. Simpson, Ulysses S. Grant
, 106.

  38. PUSG, 3:76. Letter to Mary Grant, October 25, 1861.

  39. Ibid., 226–27. Letter to Jesse Root Grant, November 27, 1861.

  40. Ibid., 238–39. Letter to Jesse Root Grant, November 29, 1861.

  41. Marszalek, Commander of All Lincoln’s Armies, 132–33.

  42. Ibid., 133.

  43. McPherson, Tried by War, 27.

  44. PUSG, 3:228. Letter to Jesse Root Grant, November 27, 1861.

  45. Ibid., 209. Letter to Capt. John C. Kelton, November 21, 1861.

  46. Ibid., 4:111. Dispatch from Cairo, January 12, 1862.

  47. Ibid., 110. Letter to Capt. William J. Kountz, January 29, 1862.

  48. Ibid., 112.

  49. Ibid., 113.

  50. GPL. S2 B54 F5. “Interview with Charles Galligher.” HGP.

  51. LoC. EBWP. Box 20. Letter from William Bross to Secretary of War Simon Cameron, December 30, 1861.

  52. Chicago Sunday Tribune Magazine, January 14, 1962.

  53. Ibid.

  54. Ibid.

  55. Washburne, Biography, 94.

  56. Ibid.

  57. PUSG, 4:116. Letter from John A. Rawlins to Elihu B. Washburne, December 30, 1861.

  58. Ibid., 117.

  59. Ibid., 118.

  60. Richardson, A Personal History, 188.

  61. PUSG, 4:277. Letter from William R. Rowley to Elihu B. Washburne, January 30, 1862.

  62. Julia Grant, Memoirs, 96.

  63. Berner, Mrs. Leland Stanford, 35.

  64. PUSG, 4:96. Letter to Mary Grant, January 23,1862.

  65. Ibid., 91. Letter from Brig. Gen. Charles F. Smith to Capt. John A. Rawlins, January 22, 1862.

  66. “General Rawlins’ Address.” Report of the Proceedings of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee, 1877.

  67. Marszalek, Commander of All Lincoln’s Armies, 192.

  68. Catton, Grant Moves South, 124.

  69. Grant, Memoirs, 1:190.

  70. PUSG, 27:17. Letter to Gen. William T. Sherman, January 29, 1876.

  71. Marszalek, Commander of All Lincoln’s Armies, 116.

  72. PUSG, 4:99. Telegram to Maj. Gen. Henry W. Halleck, January 28, 1862.

  73. Ibid., 104. Letter from Maj. Gen. Henry W. Halleck, January 30, 1862.

  74. McPherson, Tried by War, 63.

  75. Ibid.

  76. Ibid., 69.

  77. Bunting, Ulysses S. Grant, 43.

  78. McPherson, Tried by War, 69.

  79. PUSG, 4:122. Letter to Maj. Gen. Henry W. Halleck, January 31, 1862.

  80. Porter, Campaigning with Grant, 245.

  81. Catton, Grant Moves South, 138.

  82. Simpson, Ulysses S. Grant, 111.

  83. Smith, Grant, 144.