Excerpt from General Grant’s Letters to a Friend: 1861-1880
So great a degree to General Grant’s suc cess in the American Civil War of 1861-1865, as the Hon. Elihu B. Washburne, to whom the following forty-eight letters and parts of let ters were addressed, during a period of nineteen years. Beginning in the first year of the war the correspondence was continued uninter ruptedly until after the close of Grant’s second administration and his return from the ex tended tour around the world. The letters are certainly of no inconsiderable historical value, being dated in many instances from such fa mous battle-fields as Fort Donelson, Shiloh, Vicksburg, Chattanooga, and the Wilderness, and revealing in an interesting manner many of the strongest and most admirable traits of General Grant’s chara ’ter. These private com munications contain his views upon men and affairs in the western hemisphere, as well as in many of the foreign lands which he visited. His.
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