Hence, the war could not have been about slavery. Ended: Dec 14, 2020. Originally published in the August 2006 issue of Civil War Times. Badeau had made a small mistake. The editors of this volume are Mary Drake McFeely, editor of the Southern Literature Series and Georgia History and Culture Series, and William S. McFeely, professor emeritus of American History at the University of Georgia and author of Grant: A Biography. By 1864 Grant knew that the rebellion could be suppressed only by maintaining relentless pressure against its armies and methodically destroying its resources. The public has become accustomed to my style of writing. It was clear by now that the book was going to sell very well indeed, and the money would come rolling in once the job was done and the door-to-door salesmen got busy. The failure of the brokerage house of Grant & Ward had left him flat broke just at the moment he learned that the irritating sore in his throat that had bothered him so long was an inoperable cancer, and his one purpose now was to get royalties that would relieve his family from want. Accession No. The Civil War Letters Collection was created with the CONTENTdm software's innovative new program, JPEG 2000, which enables materials to be displayed in a higher quality, more usable online format. The diaries offer a unique look into the lives of common soldiers, spies and even a bodyguard of Abraham Lincoln. For roughly 90 minutes, Generals Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee, as well as various staff officers, met in this small space. Much of the series deals with the period of Sherman's post-Civil War army career, and the papers are particularly numerous for the years when he was commanding general of the army, 1869-1883. $45.00. Sign up for our monthly e-newsletter and receive a coupon for 10% off your first LOA purchase. O the humanity. We are able to learn much about the feelings of a person heading into battle, their feelings for a loved one; thoughts on mortality and God. “General Halleck unquestionably deemed General C. F. Smith a much fitter officer for the command of all the forces in the military district than I was,” Grant concluded after the war, “It is probable that the general opinion was that Smith’s long services in the army and distinguished deeds rendered him the more proper person for such command. Date: December 16, 1864. Sherman discussed general topics, such as the morale of his men, their health and overall conditions. Grant capped them with a final declaration: “It would be a degradation for me to accept honors and profit from the work of another man while declaring to the public that it was the product of my own brain and hand.”. Twenty years after Appomattox, the Civil War’s greatest general fought his last campaign against death and time. Union General William Sherman wrote the letter to the head of the Union Army, General Ulysses S. Grant, on March 12, from Fayetteville, North Carolina. This Civil War letter to General Sanford, written on May 30, 1861, describes her distress at the occupation of her home, Arlington House, by Northern troops. © Copyright 1949-2018 American Heritage Publishing Co. All Rights Reserved. Go back, again, to his performance in the Memoirs . The great bulk of the manuscript looks like a professional’s work; which is to say that it contains the interlineations, the lines drawn through words and phrases, which show an unremitting effort to go over what has been written and find just the right way to say what the writer wanted said. I cannot think of myself as depending upon any person to supply a capacity which I am lacking. You say that “I am a man of affairs, etc., and can tell a simple story,” etc. Return to Arms. On the other hand, many people claim that Confederate general Robert E. Lee did not. BRUNSWICK COUNTY — E.C. Details about Civil War Letter Jun 16 1863 General Grant Vicksburg Fight, Read Description See original listing. President Ulysses S. Grant with First Lady Julia Dent Grant and son Jesse in 1872. Heaven grant there may be an end soon. If Grant thus finally became a literary man, the important question of course is: how good a literary man was he? He had the pride of authorship. Lincoln promotes Grant as top Civil War general, March 10, 1864. The reader must also be satisfied, for he knows from the beginning just what to expect. For Lt. General Ulysses S. Grant and tens of thousands of Federal and Confederate troops fighting further south, the war stretched out for several more months. General Robert E. Lee may have fought on the Confederate side in the Civil War, but his true allegiance always lay with his beloved home state of Virginia, according to his newly released letter. 1865. The English critic Matthew Arnold, no great admirer of Grant or of Americans generally, found Grant’s literary style “straightforward, nervous, firm, possessing in general the high merit of saying clearly, in the fewest possible words, what had to be said, and saying it, frequently, with shrewd and unexpected turns of expression.”. Ulysses S. Grant served as U.S. general and commander of the Union armies during the late years of the American Civil War, later becoming the 18th U.S. president. What really irritated him, however, was Badeau’s implication that Grant could not finish his book without Badeau’s help. Details about Civil War Letter Jun 16 1863 General Grant Vicksburg Fight, Read Description See original listing. The prose style in which he took such pride is marked above all by clarity of expression. Browse the Civil War Diaries Collection Browse the Civil War Letters Collection Grant’s pride as a craftsman had been offended. In his letter, Badeau had been fairly blunt. Badeau’s financial terms were high, but by this time it was clear that they could be met without hardship. One of his aides, Horace Porter, wrote that Grant never had a dictionary in his tent, never bothered to write a word out on a scrap of paper to see if he had it right, and altogether spelled “with a heroic audacity.”. Ulysses S. Grant: Memoirs & Selected Letters, “The Grant autobiography…is a powerful, riveting, endlessly fascinating book, gracefully written—every word—by Grant himself….” — San Diego Tribune, From “lovelorn, insecure young man” to resolute commander—the private side of Ulysses S. Grant, Ulysses S. Grant, “Letters from Matamoros”. You say, “no one but myself can destroy my own book. The last two sentences of this paragraph add up to excellent advice for any budding writer. His letters indicate a rich, complex sense of Confederate nationalism not simply tied to Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia. William T. Sherman, a major-general for the United States Army during the Civil War, sent this telegram to the head of the United States Army, General Ulysses S. Grant. The Civil War came at just the right time for Grant. Transcript. 1199 pages, LOA books are distributed worldwide by Penguin Random House. $9.40 shipping. They bring us a history that is personal, sometimes even private, yet always revealing. Edited by Mary McFeely and William S. McFeely. If a hack could finish the job for him, well and good. There is, for instance, his note to General Buckner: “No terms except unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. Ending Jan 13 at 12:36PM PST 5d 20h. It is common to find him spelling a word one way in one sentence and another way in the next one. Mary Custis Lee letter to Union General Sanford, 1861 (Mary Custis Lee papers. Transcripts are provided for each handwritten page. Grant was doodling, remember, at a time when simply to stay alive was torment and when the available time was short, but the job he was doing was of a kind that cannot always be hurried. Truly it may be considered the most cruel and awful scourge which can befall a nation. Spelling was a minor bother to him—not because he did not know how to spell, but apparently because he just didn’t care much about it. At the end of an inconsequential advance in Missouri in 1861 he realized that his opponent “had been as much afraid of me as I had been of him.” Fort Donelson and Shiloh taught him to seize the initiative, while his success in living off the land during the Vicksburg campaign inspired William T. Sherman to undertake his marches through the interior of the South. Lincoln differed with Grant about how to handle the campaign, but when Grant pursued his own strategy successfully, Lincoln frankly admitted that Grant … His letters and orders are never foggy, and some of the most memorable sentences of the whole Civil War come straight from Grant’s pen. The meeting will be via Zoom at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 1. Usually letters from home were lost or destroyed during troop movements and only the soldier's letters remain. When the Civil War began, he offered his services and soon took command of a volunteer regiment. Specifically, he wanted $1,000 a month, payable in advance, plus ten per cent of the entire profits from the memoirs. Grant replied: “I have concluded that you and I must give up all association so far as the preparation of any literary work goes which is to bear my signature. Ulysses S. Grant served as U.S. general and commander of the Union armies during the late years of the American Civil War, later becoming the 18th U.S. president. General, Below is General Grant’s transcribed letter to COL Markland dated May 19th, 1865. 80-1) Mary Custis Lee, wife of Robert E. Lee, was born in 1806, and died in 1873. Civil War Letter Jun 16 1863 General Grant Vicksburg Fight, Read Description: Condition: Used. It might be added that Grant died just two days after he had written his final words. Kaskel was about to become one of the Jewish people ordered to leave towns in Kentucky, Mississippi and Tennessee during the Civil War. Executive Mansion, Washington, July 14, 1863. Support with a donation>>. The letter was sent from just outside of Atlanta, on October 9, 1864. Badeau had been Grant’s military secretary during the final year of the Civil War, and some time after the war he had written a three-volume Military History of Ulysses S. Grant . For 70 years, American Heritage has been the leading magazine of U.S. history, politics, and culture. I do not want a secret between me and someone else which would destroy my honor if it were divulged. On July 3, 1863 General Grant had sent a very short letter to General John C. Pemberton, the commander of the Confederate forces at Vicksburg which stated: “Surrender by 9 AM on July, 4, 1863 or we begin bombardment of the city of Vicksburg.” The terms of surrender for the Army of Northern Virginia were drafted and signed here, leading to the capitulation of the most important Confederate army and the beginning of the end of the American Civil War. Get the best deals on Civil War Letter when you shop the largest online selection at eBay.com. At the beginning of the Civil War, he was working in his father's leather store but took command of a volunteer regiment. John S. Mosby, the renowned Confederate partisan leader, dealt with this moral dilemma years after the Civil War ended. Why, if money was all that mattered? In the spring of 1885, when he was less than three months away from death by cancer, General Ulysses S. Grant had a spirited exchange of letters with Adam Badeau, who was supposed to be helping him write his memoirs. This new software includes pan and zoom capabilities which allows the user to move in and out of the image and move across the image to display the details. Nearly three years later the war raged on with no end in sight. Grant wrote about the most destructive war in American history with a clarity and directness unequaled in our literature. It would not take longer if done by an expeditious writer and as I want it done, and I thought and you thought the compensation large at the time.” (Compensation: $5,000 out of the first $20,000 in royalties, and $5,000 out of the next $10,000.). O the horrors of war. The secession of eleven Southern states in 1861 plunged the nation into Civil War pitting the Confederate states against the Union. No one but myself can destroy my own book. Grant was combating poverty as well as cancer. Sherman, is usually considered one of the two greatest Union heroes of the war. But your book has assumed an importance which neither you nor I anticipated last summer. Then Grant addressed himself to what seemed to be Badeau’s chief complaint: that Grant’s memoirs, once on sale, would bury Badeau’s own work and sink Badeau’s name in obscurity: Allow me to say that this is all bosh, and evidently the work of a distempered mind that has been growing moody by too much reflection upon these matters. Rarely does one get to read both sides of a Civil War correspondance. You imply that a literary man must supply some deficiencies, and that you are the only man who can do it. The debate implicates Union General, and then U.S. President-to-be, Ulysses S. Grant for owning slaves at the time of the Civil War. Yet with all of this it is fair to say that the manuscript required from the editor no more work than might be given to the manuscript of any professional writer who had been compelled by approaching death to leave his final pages in a slightly disorganized state. Mark Twain’s famous verdict—that it is “a great, unique and unapproachable literary masterpiece”—is probably a little excessive, and yet the book has a quality that lifts it far above the other soldier-memoirs of its time and place. Colonel, I take great pleasure in presenting you the “Grimsley Saddle” which I have used in all the battles from Fort Henry, Tenn. in Feb 1862 to the battles about Petersburg, VA ending in the surrender of Lee’s Army at Appomattox C.H. They were victims of General Orders No. Grant… The Civil War came at just the right time for Grant. © Literary Classics of the United States, Inc. It should have been an open-and-shut case. 9 th April 1865. Free shipping on many items ... 1862 Civil War Letter by Colonel (Maj. General)Samuel Beatty fought in 6 Battles. Grant Taylor, however, managed to hold on to many of his wife's letters and the perspective this gives on the dynamics between husband and wife is fascinating. If I don’t help you it will retain its place, for you have neither the physical strength nor the habits of mind yourself to make the researches to verify or correct your own memory. I have won some and lost some. His agonizing malady was now entering its terminal stage, he needed an amanuensis to help him organize some of the material, and he understood that he might die before the work was finished, in which case someone would have to arrange the final sections to make a coherent conclusion—but a ghost writer he did not want at all. Jean V. Berlin and Brooks D. Simpson (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1999), 822-823. Grant”), war-date as General-in-Chief, being a much-emended cipher message; 1 page, quarto, Head Quarters, City Point, Virginia, March 4, 1865.To Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton in Washington. With contributions from donors, Library of America preserves and celebrates a vital part of our cultural heritage for generations to come. BRUNSWICK COUNTY — E.C. General Correspondence, 1837-1891 The General Correspondence series, which forms the bulk of the collection, is arranged chronologically. He was writing to U. S. Grant, who was not used to being pushed around. After the Civil War, President Andrew Johnson named Grant Secretary of War over the newly reunited nation. Correspondents in the latter group include Rufus King and Ulysses S. Grant. Twenty years after Appomattox, stricken by cancer and facing financial ruin, Ulysses S. Grant wrote his Personal Memoirs to secure his family’s future. Free subscription >>, Please consider a donation to help us keep this American treasure alive. Whether he did it well or poorly, Grant was behaving like a craftsman. As president, I wrote every official document, I believe, usual for presidents to write, bearing my name. Back to home pageReturn to top. Ulysses S. Grant went to West Point, graduating in the middle of his class. VA on the 9th of Aprl. His wife, Julia Dent Grant, was the daughter of a prominent St. Louis slaveholding family. Ulysses S. Grant, commanding general of the Union army at the end of the Civil War and the eighteenth president of the United States, figures prominently in many NEH-supported projects focusing on the war and its aftermath. Civil War LetterVery descriptive war news in this 1865 Civil War letter written by a staff member of General Grant - stationed at the Quartermaster's office depot of Repairs at City Point, Virginia. Letters were an important aspect of the Civil War. The original letters between the two Generals is lost to history. Grant thought that Badeau was asking for altogether too much money, and said so flatly. The diaries were donated to the Grant collection by Merlin E. Sumner prior to the Grant collection's arrival at MSU in 2008. Gen. U.S. Grant (later the 18 th President of the United States from 1869-1877), along with Gen. W.T. Once during the war he wrote to his twelve-year-old son Fred, from whom he had just had a letter, advising the young man to keep a dictionary with him when he wrote letters so that he could check his spelling; but like many another father, Grant preached what he did not himself practice. Badeau had been Grant’s military secretary during the final year of the Civil War, and some time after the war he had written a three-volume Military History of Ulysses S. Grant . From R.E. Letters include both private and official correspondence. No literary man has the military knowledge; no military man has the literary experiences; no literary or military man living, not one of your old Staff even, has one tithe of my knowledge and experience on this subject, the result of twenty years’ study and devotion…. The NEH-supported work on Grant’s letters deserves special mention. From Abraham Lincoln to George G. Meade [Draft], July 14, 1863. Grant considered the Mexican War “one of the most unjust ever waged by a stronger against a weaker nation” and thought that the Civil War was our punishment for it; but his retrospective disapproval did not prevent him from becoming enchanted by Mexico or from learning about his own capacity for leadership amid the confusion and carnage of battle. Brian J. Murphy writes from Fairfield, Conn. Transcripts are provided for each handwritten page. The Library holds a treasure trove of documents from the Civil War commander and 18th president of the United States, including personal correspondence, “headquarters records” created during the Civil War and the original handwritten manuscript of Grant’s memoir— regarded as one of the best in history—among other items. Civil War Letter Jun 16 1863 General Grant Vicksburg Fight, Read Description: Condition: Used. He could no more take credit for a book he had not really written than he could have confessed that his Vicksburg campaign had been devised and executed by some subordinate. Any writer will recognize the situation he was in. They were not edited, nor was assistance rendered. The real trouble was that Grant had become a writing man, and he was driven by the writing man’s compulsions. They know that it is not even an attempt to imitate either a literary or classical style; that it is just what it is and nothing else. Letter from General Sherman to General Grant. By the time the Civil War broke out in 1861, Grant was a 39-year-old father of four with barely a penny to his name. After the outbreak of war in April 1861, Grant eagerly joined, taking command of an Illinois volunteer regiment. This is a little unexpected. In all other respects I hope our relations may continue as they have always been, pleasant and friendly.” He went on to say that the manuscript was by now much nearer completion than Badeau supposed, and he pointed out that the work required of the amanuensis would not be too extensive: “The work which I wanted you to do I did not think would take over two months of your time, working on an average of four hours a day, six days in the week. In 1868, running against Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant was elected eighteenth President of the United States. Ended: Nov 29, 2020. April 9th, 1865, was the end of the Civil War for General Robert E. Lee and the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. Trusted Writing on History, Travel, Food and Culture Since 1949. General Grant in Love and War The officer who gained glory as a warrior in the Civil War also had a domestic side. To license content, please contact licenses [at] americanheritage.com. Robert E. Lee to Ulysses S. Grant, April 9, 1865 Duplicate. If you can not finish the work, nobody can do it fitly but me. Lee To U.S. Grant Head-Quarters, Army of Northern Virginia April 9, 1865. No professional author could have written a sturdier declaration of dedication to his craft: “I do not want a book bearing my name to go before the world which I did not write to such an extent as to be fully entitled to the credit of authorship.”. Message of President Abraham Lincoln Nominating Ulysses S. Grant to Be Lieutenant General of the Army. As they are substantially the same as those expressed in your letter of … After reading Lee’s letter, Grant forwarded his own views to Secretary of War Edwin Stanton on June 16, 1865: In my opinion the officers and men paroled at Appomattox Court-House, and since, upon the same terms given to Lee, cannot be tried for treason so long as they observe the terms of their parole. From poetry, novels, and memoirs to journalism, crime writing, and science fiction, the more than 300 volumes published by Library of America are widely recognized as America’s literary canon. It is to have a circulation of hundreds of thousands, and the larger its circulation the greater its importance—the more completely it will supplant and stamp out mine. Grant’s autobiography is devoted almost entirely to his life as a soldier: his years at West Point, his service in the peacetime army, and his education in war during conflicts foreign and domestic. No living sister or Mother to administer relief in that hour the most sad in the history of humanity. I propose to move immediately upon your works.” And to Meade, outlining the plan for the 1864 campaign: “Lee’s army will be your objective point. Ulysses S. Grant was a West Point graduate who fought with distinction in the War with Mexico, but found post-war life in the West unbearable and resigned from the Army in 1854. In his letter of acceptance to the party, Grant concluded with "Let us have peace," which became his successful campaign slogan. This Library of America volume also includes 174 letters written by Grant from 1839 to 1865. His account of the Civil War combines a lucid treatment of its political causes and its military actions, along with the story of his own growing strength as a commander. In the upshot, Grant finished the job as he had said he would, and an examination of his original manuscript in the Library of Congress is instructive. The letters, addressed to Braman's family in Troy, include one written to his uncle after the Battle of Gettysburg. Request product #200511, ISBN: 978-0-94045058-5 In this remarkable letter, President Abraham Lincoln congratulates General Grant for an important victory -- the capture of Vicksburg, Mississippi, on July 4, 1863. Besides, to work on another man’s manuscript struck Badeau as sheer drudgery, he saw his own name vanishing from sight under the great weight of Grant’s name, and anyway he wanted to write a novel; so on May 2 he wrote to Grant demanding more money. 0 bids. Many of them are to his wife, Julia, and offer an intimate view of their affectionate and enduring marriage; others, addressed to fellow generals, government officials, and his congressional patron Elihu B. Washburne, provide a fascinating contemporary perspective on the events that would later figure in the Memoirs . As soon as he was away, Grant began writing love letters to Julia Dent. But that was for private letters. Enjoy! Grant”), war-date as General-in-Chief, being a much-emended cipher message; 1 page, quarto, Head Quarters, City Point, Virginia, March 4, 1865.To Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton in Washington. After the outbreak of war in April 1861, Grant eagerly joined, taking command of an Illinois volunteer regiment. On May 5 he rejected Badeau’s claim in the most plain-spoken terms—and in the course of writing the letter unwittingly demonstrated that by the oddest turn of fate he had actually become what Badeau supposed himself to be: a man of letters. He often wrote to his political sponsor, Congressman Elihu Washburne of Illinois, and he was quite capable of spelling Washburne’s name both with and without the final e in the same letter. Grant was one of the most articulate of American soldiers. Correspondents in the latter group include Rufus King and Ulysses S. Grant. If this is the case … I do not want a book bearing my name to go before the world which I did not write to such an extent as to be fully entitled to the credit of authorship. Read more >>, The magazine was forced to suspend print publication in 2013, but a group of volunteers saved the archives and relaunched it in digital form in 2017. Obviously, money was not all that mattered. The fact is, if my book affects yours in any way it will be to call attention to it. I may fail, but I will not put myself in such a position. Major General Meade. General: I received your letter of this date containing the terms of the surrender of the army of Northern Virginia, as proposed by you. Discount offer available for first-time customers only. Acclaimed by readers as diverse as Mark Twain, Matthew Arnold, Gertrude Stein, and Edmund Wilson, the Personal Memoirs demonstrates the intelligence, intense determination, and laconic modesty that made Grant the Union’s foremost commander. Arthur McKinstry represent the experience of a young private in the Union Army during the Civil War. General Ulysses S. Grant's Victory at Fort Donelson: General Grant's Famous Letter Demanding "Unconditional Surrender" General Ulysses S. Grant… From a letter from Waters Whipple Braman to his Uncle on July 5, 1863: (1.36 MB) Camp of … Experience I have fought through so many battles in the past years. A few pages from the end, when the shadows were closing in fast, there is a page containing no writing at all—just doodles, a sketch of a farmhouse, a series of crosshatched squares and triangles: precisely the sort of byplay a writer indulges in when the next paragraph will not come out and the subconscious mind has to be given a chance to bring something to the surface. It was nearly two decades after the end of the war, when Grant was researching the Official Records for his memoirs, that he finally found out what a committed foe he had had in Halleck, and how close he had come to dismissal and disgrace. In answer to this I have to say that for the last twenty-four years I have been very much employed in writing. Grant was a soldier; at one degree removed, he was a politician; and now he was writing a book, his only aim being to make money for his family. Autograph Letter Signed (“U.S. The war was essentially over, and Lee, having accepted that fate, praised his troops for their "duty faithfully performed," bidding them "an affectionate farewell." And this nobody but me can do. A champion of America’s great writers and timeless works, Library of America guides readers in finding and exploring the exceptional writing that reflects the nation’s history and culture. Resignation of Captain Philip Trounstine, 5th Ohio Cavalry, in protest against "General Orders #11" This letter was written in response to General Grant's "General Orders #11" expelling the Jews "as a class" from the military department commanded by General Grant, including Northern Mississippi and … Buy the Grant and Sherman volumes in a boxed set and save $22. The meeting will be via Zoom at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 1. His narrative of the war’s final year culminates in his meeting with Lee at Appomattox, a scene of quiet pride, sadness, and humanity. Grant began his military career as a cadet at the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1839. Ulysses Grant (1822-1885) commanded the victorious Union army during the American Civil War (1861-1865) and served as the 18th U.S. president from 1869 to 1877. The answer is that he was surprisingly good. He complained that the work he was supposed to do for Grant would be “the merest literary drudgery,” and went on: In the nature of things, I can have no reputation and consideration from my connection with the book. This has been a standard reference work ever since, but it had not been a great commercial success and now it occurred to Badeau that it would sink into the shadows forever, once Grant’s memoirs came out. The better I help you to make it, the more effectually I destroy what I have spent my life in building up—my reputation as your historian. He wrote this book against pain and death, and he stuck to it as long as he could hold a pencil—not because someone else could not finish the thing for him, thereby assuring his family a proper estate, but simply because as a writing man he wanted the book done his way. The Letter was sent from just outside of Atlanta, on October 9, 1865 was. 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