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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The campaign from the Wilderness to Petersburg —Address of Colonel C. S Venable (formerly of General R. E. Lee 's staff), of the University of Virginia , before the Virginia division f the Army of Northern Virginia , at their annual meeting, held in the Virginia State Capitol , at Richmond , Thursday , October 30th , 1873 . (search)
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Campaign of 1864 and 1865 . (search)
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Long's memoir of General R. E. Lee . (search)
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Field telegrams from around Petersburg . (search)
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Book notices. (search)
Book notices.
Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
New York: Charles L. Webster & co.
This book has been before the public for some time, and has had an unprecedented sale.
Anything that came from so prominent an actor in such great events would have possessed interest, and there is no doubt that the tragic circumstances under which the book was written—the financial ruin, protracted illness, and slow death of General Grant—have added greatly to the desire of the public to read it.
It must be said also that the book itself possesses many elements of interest.
Written in a pleasing, narrative style, and, in the main, in a very kindly tone, it contains many anecdotes, reminiscences, and expressions of personal opinion about men and things which give a decided interest to the narrative, and give the book a certain historic value.
But it is (as was to have been expected from the circumstances under which it was written) a book full of blunders and flat contradictions of the