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Ulysses S. Grant autograph :
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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.
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Ulysses S. Grant correspondence
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This collection contains correspondence sent by Ulysses S. Grant, primarily from City Point, Virginia, to Abraham Lincoln, Edwin M. Stanton, Henry W. Halleck, George Gordon Meade, Benjamin F. Butler, Philip Henry Sheridan, William T. Sherman, and others during Civil War operations from May 1864 to April 1865. The correspondence is in the form of signed letters, most in Grant's hand and on army letterhead; the letters were then resent as telegrams, many after being ciphered. Correspondence primarily pertains to Union Army campaigns in Virginia from August 1864 to February 1865. Items sent to Philip Henry Sheridan also discuss campaigns in the Shenandoah Valley and the Confederate battalion of John S. Mosby; items sent to William T. Sherman discuss the capture of Atlanta and Sherman's campaign through Georgia and into South Carolina; several other items mention campaigns in the deep south and western edges of the war. The letters detail Union troop movements, orders and plans; intelligence on Confederate Army and government officials' movements and plans, including reports from deserters and Confederate newspapers; Union supplies, stores, and artillery; the capture of prisoners-of-war and enemy artillery; POW exchanges; soldier enlistments; the state of roads and railroads, especially in Virginia; Union general and officer appointments and dismissals; the recruitment of Black soldiers; and Grant's movements and whereabouts. Correspondence are autograph letters signed and sent by Grant from City Point, Virginia, unless otherwise noted. Most messages are marked "cipher" (see individual Scope & Contents notes for exceptions). The times noted in the date were in Grant's hand in some cases; in others, they appeared to have been added later and may have indicated the time the telegram was sent. Many of the items addressed to Major General Philip Sheridan in Virginia were actually locations in the newly created state of West Virginia.
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General field orders of Ulysses S. Grant, near Vicksburg :
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Orders regarding plans for an attack scheduled for the following day on Vicksburg, Mississippi; includes plans for infantry, artillery, and skirmishers. Item is undated and incomplete; in pencil. Date provided by Papers of Ulysses S. Grant.
mssHM 21181
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Ulysses S. Grant, City Point, Virginia, telegram to Major General George Gordon Meade :
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Grant is sending instructions for the 2nd Calvary Division and reporting news from Colonel George H. Sharp in Richmond regarding Confederate General Jubal Early and the possibilites of an attack by General Robert E. Lee. Grant states that the present policy is to ready for an attack.
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Ulysses S. Grant general field orders, near Vicksburg :
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Grant's orders for a general cannonading of Vicksburg, Mississippi, on the following day. Includes instructions for field artillery, siege guns, rifle pits, troops, and corps commanders. Item is undated and incomplete; orders were released as Special Orders No. 165 on June 19, 1863 by Lieutenent Colonel John A. Rawlins, according to Papers of Ulysses S. Grant.
mssHM 21183
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Ulysses S. Grant, Vicksburg, telegram to Major General Henry W. Halleck :
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Grant informs Halleck of a dispatch from General Nathaniel P. Banks, 1863 July 8, before Port Hudson, Louisiana; Banks reports that Port Hudson has surrendered and Mississippi River is now opened.
mssHM 21185