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Letter no. Fifteen.

This letter was written immediately before the election of Hayes, and of course toward the close of Grant's second Presidential term:

Executive Mansion, Washington, Nov. 2d 1876.
Dear Badeau,—I have read with great pleasure your chapter on the Cold Harbor Campaign, and given it to Babcock to return. I have no criticisms to make, and think it not only very accurate, but that it will explain many existing misapprehensions in regard to that Campaign.

I have no time to write further, people being in waiting now wishing to come in to see me. By June next I hope to see you, in person, in London. It is my intention by that time to start on a somewhat extended tour, taking Mrs. Grant and Jesse with me. Jesse will then be a senior in Cornell University and may only remain with me during his vacation. But if he remains with me he will still graduate at the age of twenty-one, quite young enough.

Always taking an interest in your welfare, I subscribe myself,

Your friend,


Letter no. Sixteen.

The chapter in my history here referred to is that which describes Sherman's Atlanta campaign:

Executive Mansion, Washington, Nov. 15th 1876.
Dear Badeau,—I received from Chicago on last Sunday, your sixth chapter of ‘Grant and his Campaigns,’ and read it over hastily at once, intending to give a more careful perusal. I have not had time however since, to do so, but as I gave it to Sherman to read the same evening, and as he read the most of it aloud, it is not necessary for me to retain it any longer. I send you Porter's letter. It indicates that he had some criticisms to make; I certainly have none to make myself, nor had Sherman further than to make two or three small corrections of distances in the field of his campaigns. I hope you will be able to get out


S. S. Scranton and Co., Hartford, 1887.

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