by H. W. Brands
“I have nothing to say”: Statement to Chicago Advance, July 1880, Papers of Grant, 29:439.
“I feel a very deep interest”: to Garfield, Aug. 5, 1880.
“I have never made”: Speech, Aug. 27, 1880.
“I am a Republican”: New York Times, Sept. 29, 1880.
“He is vain”: Cincinnati Gazette, Oct. 5, 1880, in Papers of Grant, 29:461-62.
“Hancock is a man”: Chicago Inter Ocean, Oct. 6, 1880, in Papers of Grant, 29:465n.
“Out there”: Speeches (two), New York Times, Oct. 22, 1880.
“Every Northern state”: New York Times, Oct. 31, 1880.
“I heartily congratulate you”: to Garfield, Nov. 11, 1880.
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“By years of colossal labor”: New York Herald, Oct. 17, 1880.
“One thing is certain”: to Badeau, Aug. 12, 1880.
“You know Buck is married!”: to Ellen Grant Sartoris, Nov. 4, 1880.
“But he has something”: to John Long, Nov. 12, 1880.
“We are boarding”: to Ellen Grant Sartoris, Nov. 4, 1880.
“Under no circumstances”: to Logan, Feb. 9, 1881.
“In any other great nation”: Morgan et al. to Pierrepont, Nov. 9, 1880, Papers of Grant, 30:137n.
“I am sure I turned”: Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant, 323.
“I hope with you”: to John Creswell, Nov. 14, 1880.
“Harmony in the Republican party”: to Garfield, Jan. 26, 1881.
“I sincerely hope”: Remarks quoted in Methodist Quarterly Review, Oct. 1881, 648.
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“Your kind letter”: to Clemens, Jan. 14, 1881.
“They have thirteen years”: New York Times, Nov. 12, 1880.
“I have long been of the opinion”: Speech, April 22, 1881.
“I am completely disgusted”: to Badeau, May 7, 1881.
“Garfield is a man”: Pittsburg Times, June 17, 1881, in Papers of Grant, 30:237-38.
“dastardly attempt”: to Badeau, July 27, 1881.
“Of course my hopes”: New York World, July 5, 1881.
“During the months of August”: Chicago Inter Ocean, Sept. 7, 1881, in Papers of Grant, 30:265.
“You will please excuse me”: New York Times, Sept. 20, 1881.
“I can hardly say”: to Badeau, Dec. 11, 1882.
“The defeat was expected”: to John Russell Young, Nov. 28, 1882.
“The reading of the whole”: to Arthur, Dec. 22, 1881.
“An Undeserved Stigma”: North American Review, Dec. 1882, 539, 545.
“The undersigned”: from Theodore Lyman et al., Nov. 27, 1882, Papers of Grant, 30:434.
“As you state”: from Longstreet, Dec. 30, 1882, Papers of Grant, 30:435.
“He had lost his hat”: New York Times, June 30, 1882.
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“I have washed my hands”: Interview for Louisville Courier-Journal, June 3, 1883, in Papers of Grant, 31:42.
“There is no man”: New York Times, July 16, 1883.
“I am willing that Mr. Ward”: to Fish, July 6, 1882.
“It is my plan”: Hamlin Garland, “A Romance of Wall Street: The Grant and Ward Failure,” McClure’s Magazine, April 1898, 500.
“We are much better off”: to Ellen Grant Sartoris, Nov. 24 and Dec. 15, 1883.
“almost a millionaire”: Deposition, March 26, 1885.
“General Grant was informed”: New York Times, May 7, 1884.
“The Grant family is ruined”: to Clara Cramer, June 8, 1884.
“I pointed out”: The Autobiography of Mark Twain, ed. Charles Neider (1959), 237.
“Sell me the memoirs”: Autobiography of Mark Twain, 240-41.
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“I learned afterward”: The Autobiography of Mark Twain, ed. Charles Neider (1959), 252.
“It is a matter for great congratulation”: New York Times, Feb. 20, 1885.
“Sinking into the Grave”: New York Times, March 1, 1885.
“The composition is entirely my own”: to Webster & Co., May 2, 1885.
“It was a busy time”: New York Times, May 2, 1885.
“Since coming … I signify all three”: Notes, June 17 to July 20, 1885, Memoirs, 1111-20.
“If it is within God’s providence … in the end”: Memoirs, 1116-19.
“He asked me with his pencil”: Autobiography of Mark Twain, 252.
“I have my full share”: Autobiography of Mark Twain, 253.
“I am older than your Father”: from Sherman, March 17, 1885, Papers of Grant, 31:388n.
“profound sympathy”: Resolution of Grand Army of the Republic, June 24, 1885, in Robert B. Beath, History of the Grand Army of the Republic (1889), 296.
“Tell the boys”: Message, May 14, 1885.
“Look after our dear children”: to Julia Dent Grant, June 29, 1885.
“I must try”: Memoirs, 1118, 1115.
“Buck has brought up”: Memoirs, 1118.
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“In General Grant’s death”: New York Times, July 31, 1885.
“Ulysses S. Grant”: Washington Post, Aug. 3, 1885.
“I heard him say once”: New York Times, Aug. 3, 1885.
“Everything has been said”: New York Times, Aug. 1, 1885.
“Why, you cannot trust”: New York Times, Aug. 3, 1885.
“He was the truest”: New York Times, July 24, 1885.
“Wherever General Grant’s body lies”: Ron Powers, Mark Twain (2005), 504.
“There was a burst of sunlight”: New York Times, Aug. 6, 1885.
…Grant’s casualties … were lower than Lee’s: James M. McPherson, The Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War (2007), 113; Jean Edward Smith, Grant (2001), 15, 629n6.
INDEX
abolitionism, 9.1, 52.1
Dred Scott decision and
emancipation proclamation on
in Harpers Ferry raid
of John Brown
Adams, Charles Francis, 64.1, 65.1, 65.2
Adams, John Quincy, 2.1, 4.1, 65.1
Aden
African Americans, 63.1, 65.1, 74.1, 78.1, 87.1
citizenship question and, 11.1, 51.1, 52.1
education of, 62.1, 83.1
in Grant’s legacy
in prisoner exchanges
in Reconstruction era
Slaughterhouse Cases and
suffrage issue and, 4.1, 51.1, 52.1, 57.1, 83.1
see also slaves, slavery
Akerman, Amos, 63.1, 63.2, 70.1
Alabama, 14.1, 62.1, 79.1
Alabama, CSS, 64.1, 64.2, 65.1, 68.1, 70.1
Alaska, 60.1, 63.1
Albert, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Alden, Captain
Alexander, Edward Porter
Allen, Vanderbilt
American Party, U.S.
American Revolution, 1.1, 2.1, 57.1
Loyalists in
Ames, Oakes
Ampudia, Pedro de, 4.1, 5.1
“anaconda plan”
Anderson, Robert, 7.1, 15.1, 15.2, 24.1
Angier, Nedom
Antietam, Battle of
casualties in
Confederate retreat in
lost order in
Anti-Slavery Society
Appler, Jesse
Appomattox campaign
Confederate surrender in
evacuation of Richmond in
Lee-Grant exchanges in, 49.1, 49.2
Arapaho Indians
Arkansas, 30.1, 35.1, 65.1, 65.2, 75.1
electoral conflict in
Army, U.S.
Army of Northern Virginia, C.S.A., 27.1, 30.1, 39.1, 40.1, 49.1, 49.2, 49.3, 49.4, 87.1
shortages and desertions in, 39.1, 47.1
Army of the James, U.S., 39.1, 39.2, 47.1, 49.1
Army of the Ohio, U.S., 23.1, 58.1
Army of the Potomac, U.S., 25.1, 30.1, 33.1, 36.1, 36.2, 39.1, 39.2, 39.3, 48.1, 84.1, 87.1
Grant’s revie
w of
Army of the Tennessee, U.S., 36.1, 48.1, 82.1, 87.1
reunion of
Army of Virginia, U.S.
Arnold, Isaac
Arthur, Chester, 82.1, 84.1, 85.1 87.1
Articles of Confederation
Ashburn, George
Aspinwall, William
Associated Press, 59.1, 65.1, 65.2, 69.1
Atchison, David
Atlanta campaign
initial engagements in
McPherson’s death in
siege of Atlanta in
Austin, Horace
Austin, Stephen
Austria
Aztecs
Babcock, Orville, 58.1, 60.1, 60.2, 61.1
whiskey scandal and
Badeau, Adam, 30.1, 31.1, 36.1, 49.1, 58.1, 60.1, 65.1, 80.1, 80.2, 80.3, 83.1, 84.1, 84.2, 84.3, 86.1, 86.2
Báez, Buenaventura, 60.1, 61.1, 61.2
Baker, Edward D.
Ball’s Bluff, Battle of, 21.1, 21.2
Baltimore American
Baltimore Gazette
Bank of the United States
Banks, Nathaniel, 31.1, 31.2
Barlow, Francis C.
Bates, Edward
Baxter, Elisha
Beauregard, Pierre G. T., 18.1, 24.1, 24.2, 25.1, 25.2
Beck, James, 62.1, 71.1
Beecher, Henry Ward
Behr, Captain
Belgium
Belknap, William, 63.1, 71.1, 75.1
kickbacks scandal and
Bell, John
Belmont, Battle of, 20.1, 26.1
casualties in
Grant’s view of
media reaction to
Bennett, James Gordon
Benton, Thomas Hart, 7.1, 11.1
Bigelow, John
Bismarck, Otto von
Grant’s meeting with
Black, Jeremiah
black codes, 35.1, 52.1, 62.1
Black Hawk War
Black River, Battle of
blacks, see African Americans; slaves, slavery
Blaine, James, 62.1, 72.1, 73.1, 78.1, 82.1, 83.1, 84.1
Blair, Francis, 16.1, 16.2, 18.1, 37.1, 56.1, 62.1, 63.1
Blair, Montgomery, 15.1, 27.1
Bland-Allison Act of 1877
“Bloody Angle”
Boggs, Harry, 11.1, 11.2, 19.1
Boggs, Louisa, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3
Booth, John Wilkes
Borie, Adolph, 58.1, 60.1, 80.1, 81.1
Boston Journal
Boulding, G. T. F.
Boutwell, George, 58.1, 59.1, 59.2, 60.1, 61.1, 69.1
Bowen, John S., 31.1, 32.1
Boys in Blue
Bradstreet (rating agency)
Bragg, Braxton, 27.1, 28.1, 28.2, 28.3, 36.1, 36.2, 36.3, 36.4, 37.1
Brazil
Breckinridge, John C.
Bristow, Benjamin, 70.1, 76.1, 78.1
British North America Act of 1867
Brooks, Joseph
Brooks, Preston, 9.1, 51.1
Brown, John, 1.1, 13.1
abolitionism of
Harpers Ferry raid and
Bryant, Javan
Buchanan, James, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 13.1, 14.1, 22.1, 53.1
Buchanan, Robert
Buckner, Simon Bolivar, 9.1, 22.1, 86.1, 87.1
Buell, Don Carlos, 23.1, 24.1, 24.2, 24.3, 24.4, 24.5, 25.1, 25.2
Buena Vista, Battle of
Bullock, Rufus
Bull Run, First Battle of, 18.1, 19.1
Bull Run, Second Battle of, 27.1, 84.1
Burge, Thomas
Burma
Burns, Barnabas
Burnside, Ambrose, 30.1, 36.1, 36.2, 36.3, 36.4, 36.5, 42.1
Butler, Andrew
Butler, Benjamin, 27.1, 39.1, 39.2, 42.1, 47.1
Butterfield, Daniel
Caesar, Julius
Calhoun, John, 7.1, 76.1
California, 2.1, 4.1, 13.1
in 1880 election
gold rush in, 7.1, 8.1, 55.1
Grant’s military posting to
immigration boom in
Mexican War and, 2.1, 4.1
railroads and
slavery issue and
statehood issue and, 7.1, 9.1
travel to
Cameron, Simon, 18.1, 73.1
Sherman and
Campbell, John A.
Camp Salubrity
Canada, 64.1, 64.2
carpetbaggers
Carrington, Henry
Cedar Creek, Battle of
Central America (steamship)
Central Pacific Railroad, 81.1, 84.1, 85.1
Century, 85.1, 85.2
Cerro Gordo, Battle of
Chaffee, Jerome
Chamberlain, Daniel, 78.1, 78.2
Champion Hill, Battle of
Chancellorsville, Battle of
Chapin, William
Chapultepec, Battle of
Chase, Salmon P., 15.1, 27.1, 35.1, 54.1, 70.1
Sherman’s correspondence with, 27.1, 29.1
Chattanooga, siege of, prl.1, 36.1, 37.1, 38.1, 38.2
Burnside emergency in, 36.1, 36.2, 36.3, 36.4
Confederate positions in
“cracker line” in
Dana’s view of, 36.1, 36.2
Grant honored for victory in
Hooker’s reinforcements in
Lookout Mountain in, 36.1, 57.1
Missionary Ridge in, 36.1, 57.1
Sheridan at, 36.1, 36.2
Cheyenne Indians
Chicago Journal
Chickamauga, Battle of
Chickasaw Bayou fight
Childs, George, 65.1, 83.1, 85.1
China
China (sidewheeler)
cholera, 7.1, 80.1
Chulalongkorn, King of Thailand
Churubusco, Battle of
Cincinnati Commercial
Cincinnati Gazette
City of Tokio (ship)
Civil Rights Act of 1875
civil rights bill of 1866
Civil Service Commission
Civil War, U.S.:
blockade in, 18.1, 47.1
draft riots in
economic revival after
Emancipation Proclamation
federal debt and, 67.1
foreign recognition issue in, 27.1, 27.2, 64.1
Fort Sumter crisis and, 15.1, 17.1
Grant’s articles on
Lincoln on meaning of
western theater of
see also specific battles and campaigns
Clay, Henry, 1.1, 2.1, 7.1, 7.2, 11.1, 65.1 555
Clemens, Samuel, 19.1, 83.1, 84.1, 86.1, 87.1, 87.2
Grant’s encounters with
Grant’s memoirs and, 85.1, 86.1, 86.2
Cleveland, Grover
Coke, Richard
Cold Harbor, Battle of, prl.1, 40.1, 41.1, 41.2, 41.3, 58.1
Colfax, Schuyler, 65.1, 65.2, 67.1
Colfax massacre, 73.1, 75.1
Colorado
Colored Citizens’ Association of New York and Brooklyn
Colored Orphan Asylum
Comanche Indians
Commentaries (Caesar)
Communards
Compromise of 1850, 7.1, 9.1, 80.1
Comstock, Cyrus
Comstock Lode
Congress, U.S., 1.1, 14.1, 15.1, 25.1, 27.1, 38.1, 53.1, 57.1, 58.1, 61.1, 70.1, 70.2, 73.1, 79.1, 82.1
Bland-Allison Act passed by
California statehood issue in
civil rights bill of 1866 and
civil service reform and, 74.1, 84.1
Crédit Mobilier scandal and
currency debate in, 71.1, 72.1, 80.1
Dominican annexation debate in, 60.1, 60.2, 61.1
1876 election and
federal debt and
gold conspiracy and, 59.1, 59.2, 59.3
Grant awarded gold medal by, 37.1, 48.1
Grant’s annual message of 1872 to
Grant’s Ku Klux Klan campaign and
Johnson impeachment in, 54.1, 54.2, 54.3, 56.1, 58.1
joint committee on war of
Ku Klux Klan Act passed by, 62.1, 63.1
Lincoln’s war message to
patronage system and
postwar economic recovery and
Resumption Act passed by
slavery jurisdiction of
Texas annexation and
three-fifths rule and, 52.1, 52.2
see also House of Representatives, U.S.; Senate, U.S.
Conkling, Roscoe, 70.1, 82.1, 84.1
Constitution, U.S., 2.1, 14.1, 15.1, 15.2, 17.1, 22.1, 37.1, 50.1, 53.1, 54.1, 63.1, 65.1, 73.1, 73.2, 74.1, 75.1
Fifteenth Amendment of, 57.1, 58.1, 62.1, 73.1, 75.1, 79.1, 87.1
Fourteenth Amendment of, 52.1, 53.1, 53.2, 56.1, 57.1, 62.1, 62.2, 62.3, 62.4, 63.1, 70.1, 87.1
impeachment in
insurrection in
Reconstruction and
secession crisis and, 13.1, 15.1
slavery and
Thirteenth Amendment of, 50.1, 52.1, 62.1, 75.1
three-fifths rule and
Constitutional Convention of 1787
Constitutional Union Party
Contreras, Battle of
Cook, William
Cooke, Jay
Cooke & Company
Cooper, James Fenimore
Copeland, William, 80.1
Coppie, Edwin
Corbin, Abel, 59.1, 59.2, 59.3, 59.4, 65.1
Corinth, Battle of
Corn Laws
Cortez, Hernando
Cotton Exchange
cotton trade, 27.1, 29.1, 35.1
Coushatta massacre, 73.1, 75.1
Cowen, Benjamin
Cox, Jacob, 33.1, 58.1, 60.1, 65.1
Crater, Battle of the
Crazy Horse, 55.1, 77.1, 79.1
Crédit Mobilier scandal, 67.1, 69.1, 76.1, 84.1, 87.1
Creek Indians
Creek War
Creswell, John
Crook, George, 8.1, 36.1
Crutchfield, William
Cuba, 5.1, 81.1
anti-Spanish insurgency in, 60.1, 60.2, 61.1, 70.1
U.S. intervention debate and
Virginius war scare and
Cullum, General
Cumberland Department, U.S.
currency debate, 69.1, 71.1, 80.1
gold and, 72.1, 76.1
Cushing, Caleb
Custer, George Armstrong, 44.1, 49.1, 77.1, 79.1
customs bureau
Dallas, Battle of
Dana, Charles, 29.1, 29.2, 30.1, 33.1, 36.1, 36.2, 50.1, 65.1
Chattanooga siege observed by, 36.1, 36.2
on 1864 campaign, 39.1, 40.1
Grant assessed by
at Spotsylvania
on Virginia campaign, 39.1, 40.1
Daniels, Jared
Davis, Edmund J.