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Joseph A. Mower communication to Ulysses S. Grant

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Description: This message from Joseph A. Mower to Ulysses S. Grant was sent during the Vicksburg Campaign, most likely in May 1863. The ironclad DeKalb mentioned in the note was sunk in July 1863. The message, written in pencil, is most likely in the hand of Mower's adjutant or aide-de-camp. The note reads: "Genl Grant- Gunboats DeKalb and Signal are here. Neither of them has instructions to convey us to Satartia. Jos. A. Mower Brig. Genl." On verso: "Signal Officer."
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1863, May.
Call number: mssHM 83167
Creator: Mower, Joseph Anthony (1827-1870)(Opens in new tab)
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Ulysses S. Grant Maj. Genl. U.S.A

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Image of a full-length portrait of American Civil War Union Major General Ulysses S. Grant in full military uniform with sword in hand and arm outstretched (likely an incorrect likeness of General Grant); artillery and soldiers marching with American flag raised visible in background.

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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

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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

Visual Materials

A three-quarters length seated portrait of President Ulysses Simpson Grant, sitting in a wicker chair on the large porch surrounding the house in Mount McGregor in Wilton, New York, where he died July 23rd, 1885. Grant has a neatly trimmed gray beard and mustache, has a stockinged cap on his head and a blanket on his lap, and is examining the papers in his hands.

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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

Joseph A. Mower communication to Ulysses S. Grant

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