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  17. Grant, In the Days of My Father General Grant, 212.

  18. PUSG, 28:207. “Speech,” May 30, 1877.

  19. Young, Around the World, 13.

  20. Waugh, U. S. Grant, 158.

  21. The Times (London), May 23, 1877.

  22. McFeely, Grant, 457.

  23. Julia Grant, Memoirs, 203.

  24. PUSG, 28:213. William E. Gladstone diary entry for June 5, 1877.

  25. Chicago Inter-Ocean, June 2, 1883.

  26. GPL. S2 B2 F6. Letter from Benjamin Disraeli to Anne Lady Chesterfield, June 22, 1877.

  27. The Times (London), June 16, 1877.

  28. Simon, General Grant by Matthew Arnold, 12.

  29. Young, Around the World, 378.

  30. Grant, In the Days of My Father General Grant, 227.

  31. Badeau, Grant in Peace, 282.

  32. Julia Grant, Memoirs, 207.

  33. McFeely, Grant, 459.

  34. PUSG, 28:232. Edward Henry Stanley diary entry for June 26, 1877.

  35. Badeau, Grant in Peace, 288.

  36. Ibid., 179.

  37. Young, Around the World, 27.

  38. Ibid., 246.

  39. Grant, In the Days of My Father General Grant, 218.

  40. PUSG, 28:xxvi. “Chronology,” August 1877 [n.d.].

  41. Ibid., 249. Letter to Ulysses S. Grant Jr., August 25, 1877.

  42. Ibid., 253–54. Letter to Abel R. Corbin, August 26, 1877.

  43. Ibid., 275. “Speech,” September 22, 1877.

  44. McFeely, Grant, 463.

  45. Ibid., 462.

  46. PUSG, 28:219. Letter to Elihu B. Washburne, June 18, 1877.

  47. Young, Around the World, 45.

  48. Ibid., 249.

  49. Grant, Memoirs, 2:776.

  50. Young, Around the World, 374.

  51. Julia Grant, Memoirs, 217.

  52. Ibid., 262.

  53. Ibid.

  54. PUSG, 28:318. Letter to Ulysses S. Grant Jr., November 21, 1877.

  55. Campbell, Citizen of a Wider Commonwealth, xii.

  56. Grant, In the Days of My Father General Grant, 257.

  57. Young, Around the World, 83.

  58. PUSG, 28:327. Letter from Lt. Commander Albert G. Caldwell to his family, December 20, 1877.

  59. Ibid.

  60. Perret, Ulysses S. Grant, 454.

  61. PUSG, 28:343. Letter to Frederick Dent Grant, January 25, 1878.

  62. New York Herald, May 30, 1878.

  63. Julia Grant, Memoirs, 236.

  64. PUSG, 28:356. Letter from Lt. Commander Albert G. Caldwell to his mother, March 5, 1878.

  65. Ibid., 368. Letter from Lt. Commander Albert G. Caldwell to his mother, March 19, 1878.

  66. Grant, In the Days of My Father General Grant, 299.

  67. Badeau, Grant in Peace, 305.

  68. New York Herald, June 14, 1878.

  69. The Philadelphia Times, October 20, 1879.

  70. Young, Around the World, 155.

  71. New York Herald, July 2, 1878.

  72. Young, Around the World, 158.

  73. Ibid., 160.

  74. Cramer, Ulysses S. Grant, 15.

  75. Julia Grant, Memoirs, 252.

  76. Ibid., 253.

  77. PUSG, 28:466. Letter to William W. Smith, September 1, 1878.

  78. Ibid., 29:20. Letter to Edward F. Beale, December 6, 1878.

  79. McFeely, Grant, 468.

  80. Smith, Grant, 607.

  81. McFeely, Grant, 468.

  82. PUSG, 28:361. Letter to Adam Badeau, March 22, 1878.

  83. McFeely, Grant, 479.

  84. PUSG, 28:367. Letter to Rear Admiral Daniel Ammen, March 25, 1878.

  85. The New York Times, December 7, 1878.

  86. PUSG, 29:15. Letter from Secretary of the Navy Richard W. Thompson, October 23, 1878.

  87. Ibid., 14. Letter to Richard W. Thompson, November 14, 1878.

  88. Ibid., 65. “Travel Diary,” February 20, 1879.

  89. Julia Grant, Memoirs, 268.

  90. Cramer, Ulysses S. Grant, 165.

  91. McFeely, Grant, 472–73.

  92. Campbell, Citizen of a Wider Commonwealth, 223.

  93. Young, Around the World, 238.

  94. PUSG, 29:124. Letter to Elihu B. Washburne, May 4, 1879.

  95. Ibid., 125. John Russell Young diary entry for May 6, 1879.

  96. Ibid., 84. “Travel Diary,” May 23, 1879.

  97. Ibid., 86. “Travel Diary,” June 4, 1879.

  98. Ibid., 152. “Conversation with Prince Kung,” June 8, 1879.

  99. Ibid., 156.

  100. Julia Grant, Memoirs, 294.

  101. PUSG, 29:193. Letter to Adam Badeau, August 1, 1879.

  102. Ibid., 183. Letter to Daniel Ammen, July 16, 1879.

  103. Ibid., 176. Address from the Tokyo Reception Committee, July 3, 1879.

  104. Campbell, Citizen of a Wider Commonwealth, 1.

  105. Young, Around the World, 414.

  106. PUSG, 29:204. “Conversation with Emperor Meiji,” August 10, 1879.

  107. The New York Times, January 6, 1880.

  108. Waugh, U. S. Grant, 161.

  109. Julia Grant, Memoirs, 306.

  110. “Grant Reminiscences.” Chicago Daily Tribune, September 1, 1885.

  111. Ibid.

  112. Ibid.

  113. Ibid.

  114. The Philadelphia Times, October 20, 1879.

  115. PUSG, 29:93. Letter from John Russell Young to Thomas Nast, February 6, 1879.

  116. Chicago Daily Tribune, September 23, 1879.

  117. PUSG, 29:140. Letter from Adam Badeau to Gen. William T. Sherman, May 16, 1879.

  118. Badeau, Grant in Peace, 317.

  119. Julia Grant, Memoirs, 307.

  120. San Francisco Chronicle, September 21, 1879.

  121. Ibid.

  122. GPL. S2 B54 F18. “Interview with Amos Webster.” HGP.

  123. Ibid. S2 B4 F9–11. “Drinking Folders.” Letter from Thomas M. Anderson to General Charles King, January 20, 1915.

  124. Leitman, “The Revival of an Image.”

  125. Waugh, U. S. Grant, 162.

  126. PUSG, 29:356. Letter from James M. Comly to President Rutherford B. Hayes, October 27, 1879.

  127. Ibid., 248. Letter to Adolph E. Borie, September 28, 1879.

  128. Julia Grant, Memoirs, 311.

  129. Ibid.

  130. Chicago Inter-Ocean, October 29, 1879.

  131. Ibid., October 31, 1879.

  132. Chicago Daily Tribune, November 2, 1879.

  133. Chicago Inter-Ocean, November 5, 1879.

  134. Ibid., November 4, 1879.

  135. Kaplan, Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain, 224.

  136. GPL. S2 B24 F14. “Interview with Russell Jones.” HGP.

  137. Gold, “Grant and Twain in Chicago.”

  138. Ibid.

  139. Ibid.

  140. Griffin and Smith, Autobiography of Mark Twain, 2:181.

  141. Kaplan, Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain, 225.

  142. Griffin and Smith, Autobiography of Mark Twain, 2:75.

  143. PUSG, 29:297. “Speech,” November 13, 1879.

  144. Ibid., 293. “Speech,” November 12, 1879.

  145. Griffin and Smith, Autobiography of Mark Twain, 2:71.

  146. Kaplan, Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain, 226.

  147. Ibid.

  148. Ibid.

  149. Ibid., 227.

  150. Ibid.

  151. Smith, Autobiography of Mark Twain, 1:475.

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p; 152. Gold, “Grant and Twain in Chicago.”

  153. Pittsburgh Commercial Gazette, December 16, 1879.

  154. PUSG, 29:341. Letter to Adam Badeau, December 27, 1879.

  155. Louisville Courier-Journal, December 11, 1879.

  156. PUSG, 29:314. Letter from President Rutherford B. Hayes to Lucy Webb Hayes, December 27, 1879.

  157. Ibid., 340. “Speech,” December 26, 1879.

  158. The Philadelphia Press, December 19, 1879.

  CHAPTER FORTY-ONE: MASTER SPIRIT

  1. PUSG, 28:370. Letter to Abel R. Corbin, March 29, 1878.

  2. Young, Around the World, 285.

  3. The Times (London), July 11, 1878.

  4. Grant, In the Days of My Father General Grant, 208.

  5. The Times (London), February 27, 1925.

  6. PUSG, 28:480. Letter from Gen. Philip H. Sheridan to Gen. William T. Sherman, October 29, 1878.

  7. Ibid., 480. Letter from Gen. William T. Sherman to Gen. Philip H. Sheridan, October 13, 1878.

  8. Ibid., 29:138. Letter from Gen. William T. Sherman, July 17, 1879.

  9. Ibid., 139.

  10. Ibid., 344. Letter from John Russell Young to Gen. William T. Sherman, February 14, 1880.

  11. Ibid., 305. Letter to Adam Badeau, November 21, 1879.

  12. GPL. S2 B24 F13. “Interview with Ulysses S. Grant, Jr.” HGP.

  13. PUSG, 29:356. Letter from Elihu B. Washburne to John A. Logan, December 29, 1879.

  14. Godkin, “General Grant’s Political Education Abroad.”

  15. Chicago Inter-Ocean, January 6, 1880.

  16. PUSG, 29:347. Letter to Ellen Grant Sartoris, January 18, 1880.

  17. Ibid., 364. Letter to George W. Childs, February 26, 1880.

  18. Washington National Republican, January 23, 1883.

  19. PUSG, 29:365. Letter to George W. Childs, February 26, 1880.

  20. Chicago Inter-Ocean, April 3, 1880.

  21. “With Grant in Mexico.” The Philadelphia Times, March 14, 1880.

  22. PUSG, 29:354. Letter from Elihu B. Washburne, February 11, 1880.

  23. Jordan, Roscoe Conkling, 322.

  24. PUSG, 29:371. Letter to Elihu B. Washburne, March 25, 1880.

  25. Ibid., 369. “Speech,” Galveston, Texas, March 24, 1880.

  26. Galveston News, March 26, 1880.

  27. McFeely, Grant, 481.

  28. New Orleans Picayune, April 6, 1880.

  29. Chicago Inter-Ocean, February 20, 1880.

  30. The New York Times, March 29, 1880.

  31. Memphis Appeal, April 13, 1880.

  32. Mobile Register, April 22, 1880.

  33. Chicago Inter-Ocean, April 4, 1880.

  34. PUSG, 29:380. “Speech,” April 12, 1880.

  35. Ibid., 388. “Speech,” April 16, 1880.

  36. Ibid.

  37. Egerton, The Wars of Reconstruction, 318.

  38. Jordan, Roscoe Conkling, 326.

  39. PUSG, 29:411. Letter from John Russell Young to John Hay, June 4, 1880.

  40. Badeau, Grant in Peace, 319.

  41. Ibid., 320.

  42. Leitman, “The Revival of an Image.”

  43. GPL. S2 B5 F26. Letter from Edmund Smith to Mr. Chandler, April 29, 1880.

  44. Troy Intelligencer, April 17, 1892.

  45. PUSG, 23:4. Letter to James E. McLean, February 4, 1872.

  46. New York Sun, September 5, 1878.

  47. Ibid.

  48. “Mr. Orville [sic] D. Grant Insane.” The New York Times, September 5, 1878.

  49. Ibid.

  50. PUSG, 29:29. Letter to Michael John Cramer, December 10, 1878.

  51. The New York Times, January 28, 1879.

  52. GPL. S2 B5 F26. Letter from Edmund Smith to Mr. Chandler, April 29, 1880.

  53. PUSG, 29:374. Letter from Elihu B. Washburne to Senator John A. Logan, April 30, 1880.

  54. Jordan, Roscoe Conkling, 329.

  55. Julia Grant, Memoirs, 321.

  56. Ibid.

  57. Jordan, Roscoe Conkling, 332.

  58. Ibid., 331.

  59. Ibid., 333–34.

  60. Ibid., 334.

  61. Ibid., 335.

  62. Ibid.

  63. Ibid., 336.

  64. Millard, Destiny of the Republic, 38.

  65. Young, Around the World, 288.

  66. Chicago Inter-Ocean, June 15, 1881.

  67. PUSG, 29:373. Letter from Treasury Secretary John Sherman to William H. Smith, April 19, 1880.

  68. Chicago Inter-Ocean, May 6, 1880.

  69. Smith, Grant, 617.

  70. Ross, The General’s Wife, 276.

  71. PUSG, 29:416. Letter to Roscoe Conkling, June 10, 1880.

  72. GPL. S2 B24 F13. “Interview with Ulysses S. Grant, Jr.” HGP.

  73. USGH. “Interview with Augustus Chetlain.”

  74. GPL. S2 B5 F19. William H. Wilson diary entry for July 5, 1880.

  75. Pryor, My Day, 375.

  76. Williams, Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, 3:600. Diary entry for June 5, 1880.

  77. Milwaukee Sentinel, June 10, 1880.

  78. Chicago Inter-Ocean, October 6, 1880.

  79. Millard, Destiny of the Republic, 59.

  80. Leavenworth Times, July 4, 1860.

  81. PUSG, 29:445. Letter to Adam Badeau, August 12, 1880.

  82. Denver Tribune, July 18, 1880.

  83. PUSG, 29:441. Letter from James A. Garfield, July 26, 1880.

  84. Julia Grant, Memoirs, 322.

  85. Cincinnati Gazette, October 5, 1880.

  86. Smith, Autobiography of Mark Twain, 1:75.

  87. Ibid.

  88. Ibid., 483.

  89. PUSG, 30:14. “Speech,” October 20, 1880.

  90. New York Tribune, October 22, 1880.

  91. Ibid., October 24, 1880.

  92. PUSG, 30:15. “Speech,” October 21, 1880.

  93. New York Herald, October 27, 1880.

  94. PUSG, 30:63. Letter to Ellen Grant Sartoris, November 4, 1880.

  95. New York Tribune, November 4, 1880.

  CHAPTER FORTY-TWO: A MISERABLE DIRTY REPTILE

  1. PUSG, 30:75. Letter to James A. Garfield, November 11, 1880.

  2. Ibid., 127. Letter to James A. Garfield, January 26, 1881.

  3. Ibid., 209. Letter to Senator John P. Jones, April 24, 1881.

  4. Ibid., 204. Letter to James A. Garfield, April 24, 1881.

  5. Ibid., 215. Letter to Adam Badeau, May 7, 1881.

  6. Ibid., 205. Letter from President James A. Garfield, May 15, 1881.

  7. Ibid., 206.

  8. Pittsburg Times, June 16, 1881.

  9. New York Evening Post, June 13, 1881.

  10. Millard, Destiny of the Republic, 144.

  11. Ibid.

  12. LoC. LRGP. Letter to Julia Dent Grant, July 26, 1885.

  13. PUSG, 30:249. Telegram to Secretary of War Robert T. Lincoln, July 2, 1881.

  14. Ibid.

  15. New York World, July 5, 1881.

  16. Ibid.

  17. Ibid.

  18. PUSG, 30:248. Letter to Adam Badeau, July 27, 1881.

  19. Ibid.

  20. Chicago Inter-Ocean, September 7, 1881.

  21. The New York Times, September 20, 1881.

  22. Ibid.

  23. New York World, July 5, 1881.

  24. Badeau, Grant in Peace, 337.

  25. Julia Grant, Memoirs, 322.

  26. The Two Republics, April 24, 1881.

  27. Chicago Morning News, June 13, 1881.

  28. PUSG,
30:63. Letter to Ellen Grant Sartoris, November 4, 1880.

  29. Julia Grant, Memoirs, 323.

  30. Ibid.

  31. PUSG, 30:282. Letter to William R. Rowley, October 30, 1881.

  32. Julia Grant, Memoirs, 324.

  33. PUSG, 30:130. Letter to Elizabeth King, January 27, 1881.

  34. Ibid., 464. Congressional Record, 47-1, 1289.

  35. Ward, A Disposition to Be Rich, 152.

  36. Pittsburg Times, June 17, 1881.

  37. Ward, A Disposition to Be Rich, 196.

  38. Ibid., 143–44.

  39. Ward, “General Grant as I Knew Him.”

  40. Ibid.

  41. Ibid.

  42. Ibid.

  43. Griffin and Smith, Autobiography of Mark Twain, 2:67.

  44. PUSG, 31:153. “Memorandum,” May 1884 [n.d.].

  45. Ward, A Disposition to Be Rich, 193.

  46. Ibid.

  47. The New York Times, April 9, 1885.

  48. Ward, A Disposition to Be Rich, 163.

  49. Ibid., 194.

  50. Ibid., 201.

  51. Griffin and Smith, Autobiography of Mark Twain, 2:66.

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

  53. PUSG, 31:67. Letter to Ellen Grant Sartoris, October 2, 1883.

  54. Burlington Free Press, July 29, 1885.

  55. Badeau, Grant in Peace, 418.

  56. St. Louis Post-Dispatch, May 7, 1884.

  57. “Stories of Grant.” Chicago Daily Tribune, April 12, 1885.

  58. Ward, A Disposition to Be Rich, 211.

  59. Fry, “An Acquaintance with Grant.”

  60. PUSG, 31:139. Letter from Ferdinand Ward to Ulysses Grant Jr., May 5, 1884.

  61. Ward, A Disposition to Be Rich, 217.

  62. Badeau, Grant in Peace, 419.

  63. Ibid.

  64. The New York Times, May 9, 1884.

  65. Flood, Grant’s Final Victory, 20.

  66. Ibid., 35.

  67. New York Graphic, May 6, 1884.

  68. PUSG, 31:332. “Deposition,” March 26, 1885.

  69. Fry, “An Acquaintance with Grant.”

  70. Flood, Grant’s Final Victory, 35.

  71. Ibid., 37.

  72. Ward, A Disposition to Be Rich, 222.

  73. The New York Times, October 28, 1885.

  74. Ward, A Disposition to Be Rich, 235.

  75. Julia Grant, Memoirs, 327.

  76. Ward, A Disposition to Be Rich, 234.

  77. PUSG, 31:146–47. Letter from Charles Wood, May 10, 1884.

  78. Cantacuzène, Revolutionary Days, 11.

  79. The Washington Post, July 19, 1886.

  80. New York Herald, May 10, 1884.

 

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