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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 225 225 Browse Search
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Adam Badeau, Grant in peace: from Appomattox to Mount McGregor, a personal memoir, Chapter 27: (search)
ur months in England, and then I was on duty again at the Executive Mansion from October until May. After that I was there as a visitor on only a few occasions in 1875; so that my recollections of the life at the White House are mostly those of the first and second years of Grant's Presidency. I saw the first Cabinet in power antive Mansion. For the home life went on under all the pressure of public business and all the demands of public ceremony. I passed a few days at Long Branch in 1875, and saw much of my old chief in his family life. I found it nearly the same as before he was President. The step, indeed, was not so great for him as for others as he became used to his station some of the formality which at first I thought I observed wore away. I recollect dining with him more than once in Washington in 1875. His table was always laid so that half a dozen unexpected guests might be entertained, and one Sunday we lunched informally in the library, no one but himself an
Adam Badeau, Grant in peace: from Appomattox to Mount McGregor, a personal memoir, Chapter 50: (search)
e very popular with their acquaintances and associates. We have had—Mrs. Grant has—a letter from Nellie this morning. But as I was busy I have neither read it nor heard its contents; therefore do not know whether it was written before or after her visit to London. Although remiss in writing I am always glad to hear from and take as warm an interest in your welfare as though I wrote frequently. Yours Truly, U. S. Grant. Gen'l A. Badeau, Consul Gen'l, Eng. Letter no. Eleven. In 1875, I visited the United States to be married. President Grant had promised me to give the bride away, but two or three days before the wedding he found himself unable to be present and wrote me the following letter. I went at once to Washington to persuade him to keep his engagement, but was unsuccessful; but before I left the White House he offered me the mission to Belgium. In accordance with his suggestion Washington was included in the wedding journey, and the President made a dinner of