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Ulysses S. Grant, London, letter to Ulysses S. Grant, Jr. :

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Description: Regarding his European trip, itinerary; reports on letters received, requests to send regards to various individuals.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1877 July 2.
Call number: mssHM 24714
Creator: Grant, Ulysses S (1822-1885)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Acquired from Ruth A. Child, 1954. Previously enclosed in J. Henry Work letter to Lewis Peck Child, 1877 November 20, mssHM 24738.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Ulysses S. Grant letter to Rear Admiral David G. Farragut :

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Regarding new passage from Mississippi River to Bayou Macon, allowing water access to the Red River. Is awaiting delivery of river steamers, could possibly send a force of 20,000 to assist General Nathaniel Banks at Port Hudson.

mssHM 23553

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Ulysses S. Grant, near Vicksburg, letter to Major General Nathaniel P. Banks :

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Inquiring on the situation at Port Hudson, Louisiana; reports on situation at Vicksburg, Mississippi, will send troops if siege is successful. Docket, not in Grant's hand.

mssHM 23560

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Ulysses S. Grant, Petersburg, Virginia, telegram to Theodore S. Bowers :

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Grant requests that Bowers inform President Lincoln that an officer and escort will attend him; reports that he is heading to the Danville road with the army to cut off Lee. In pencil.

mssHM 21709

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Ulysses S. Grant, Vicksburg, letter to Brigadier General Charles P. Stone :

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Regarding mail and telegraph operations; requests Stone inform Major General Nathaniel Banks that he can not supply transports with promptness. Also discusses General William T. Sherman's operations in MIssissippi and the situation in Jackson.

mssHM 23562

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Ulysses S. Grant, Washington, D.C., letter to Frederick Dent Grant :

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Regarding Frederick Grant's studies and exams. In pencil.

mssHM 25082

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Ulysses S. Grant account book :

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Accounts kept by Ulysses S. Grant while a cadet at West Point in a printed, leather-bound cadet account ledger. Columns are for Store Keeper, Taylor, Shoe Maker, Barber, Post Master, Damages U.S., Subscriptions, Cash, and Total Amount. Most ledger entries fill the Store Keeper column and list Grant's purchases and expenses for clothing, various supplies, books, and a subscription to the Philadelphia Saturday Courier. There are remarks by Grant's instructors, for example the entry dated July 1842 "The Balance due by Cadet Grant is too great to admit of any increase." Also included is a loose note titled "Memoranda for Mr. Childe" and signed Edward C. Boynton (3 pages) and two loose notes in pencil regarding "furlough clothing" issued "to Cadet Grant when he visited his home in 1841" and his "indebtedness" being "two great to allow him anything but the strictly necessary articles for daily use." End pages contain several signatures.

mssHM 975

Ulysses S. Grant, London, letter to Ulysses S. Grant, Jr. :

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