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Owen Wister, Ulysses S. Grant, V. (search)
he mayor had fulfilled his office so well, General Grant said, Mr. Mayor, as I knew that this ceremlacksmith. Lee had some seventy thousand men: Grant, some one hundred and twenty thousand. Day, aecile lamour for a change or a cessation, bore Grant down inwardly. He carried the Union on his ba Next Butler showed incompetence again. Then Grant dismissed him. Butler could have published as bjected much more; and always, when he paused, Grant imperturbably replied, But the order has been o the heart of Secession; and at the heart sat Grant, holding Lee tight in Richmond. It is recordeginia. No successes now changed a muscle of Grant's impassive face. Nothing but the capture of were here. I see no escape for General Lee. Grant called for his horse, and rode through the nigd therefore ask the terms you will offer. And Grant on Saturday replied, Peace being my great desi Grant of his army's hunger; and for this also Grant at once provided. These are the things which [51 more...]
Owen Wister, Ulysses S. Grant, VI. (search)
sident: Washington, Jackson, Harrison, Taylor, Grant. When Lincoln was taken from us, no man was so loved as Grant; and, therefore, without asking or caring to know how he could have learned statesdrew Johnson wanted Lee tried for treason, and Grant stopped it by threatening to resign his commisng to do. Certainly, Johnson did not better Grant's opinion of politicians — nor did those men wress. Naturally, the North lost patience; and Grant lost his patience, too. This swept away the Fofrom the beginning. But, when leaders came to Grant offering him the presidency, either he forgot uch a temptation. Strange, very strange, is Grant's conduct after his election. He left the worhonesty for many years. As an illustration of Grant's total blindness to the proprieties of civil g men in foreign trade to hold this position. Grant asked to have the law changed! But we will nooble, modest, great heart. As Lincoln asked Grant after Corinth, How does it all sum up Let poet[1 more...]
Owen Wister, Ulysses S. Grant, Bibliography. (search)
Bibliography. Since even the important Grant literature offers a pilgrimage of reading such as few have leisure to undertake, those books most directly and compactly authentic or remunerative have been marked with a star. Works of controversy are not included. Several volumes, once conspicuous, are omitted because of their present trifling value. It is impracticable to enumerate many documents,--Sumner's speeches, for example,--essential though they be to the student. I. Grant and his campaigns. By Henry Coppee. (New York, 1866: Charles B. Richardson.) By far the best of the early military biographies. II. With General Sheridan in Lee's last campaign. By a staff officer [F. C. Newhall]. (Philadelphia, 1866: J. B. Lippincott Company.) The most vivid story of the cavalry battles yet told. III.* personal history of Ulysses S. Grant. By Albert D. Richardson. （Hartford, Conn., 1868: American Publishing Company.) Full of anecdote and interest. On the whole, better t