GRANT, Ulysses S. (1822-1885), President . Autograph letter signed ("U.S. Grant"), as Brigadier General, to P[eter] Casey, Cairo, [Ill.], 31 December 1861. 2 pages, 4to, boldly penned on pages 1 and 3 of a four-page gathering. Folds neatly reinforced from back .
GRANT, Ulysses S. (1822-1885), President . Autograph letter signed ("U.S. Grant"), as Brigadier General, to P[eter] Casey, Cairo, [Ill.], 31 December 1861. 2 pages, 4to, boldly penned on pages 1 and 3 of a four-page gathering. Folds neatly reinforced from back . RESCUING "MRS GRANT'S HOPEFUL" FROM CONFEDERATE KIDNAPPERS An amusing letter, penned by Grant very early in the war, reporting to a relative that "My wife is growing uneasy at having one of her hopefuls [Frederick Dent Grant, their eldest son] so long in the midst of Secession as he now is. She is afraid that he may be captured and held as a hostage for some of the big guns we have, Mason & Slidell [the Confederate diplomats captured on the high seas]...if they had not been already released. I wish you would send him by the first Steamer coming down. Mrs. Grant and children send love to Emma and Jim, and will be glad to see any of your family..." Grant comments on the rampant corruption in the Army commissary department, and his mode of dealing with it: "I am tearing [up] all corrupt contracts made here in a way that may prove inconvenient to some honest men but I hope it will not touch your affairs, I send you an order I wrote immediately upon my return from the trip up the river." As explained in his Memoirs , when Grant left Galena for his Army post, he "took with me my eldest son, Frederick D. Grant, then a lad of eleven," and as the war clouds gathered, "wrote to Mrs. Grant, to relieve what I supposed would be her great anxiety for one so young going into danger..." ( Memoirs , Lib. of America edn., p.163). Young Frederick eluded kidnappers and returned to his family in Galena; a few years later he was with Grant at Vicksburg, where he received a slight wound. After the War Frederick attended West Point.
GRANT, Ulysses S. (1822-1885), President . Autograph letter signed ("U.S. Grant"), as Brigadier General, to P[eter] Casey, Cairo, [Ill.], 31 December 1861. 2 pages, 4to, boldly penned on pages 1 and 3 of a four-page gathering. Folds neatly reinforced from back .
GRANT, Ulysses S. (1822-1885), President . Autograph letter signed ("U.S. Grant"), as Brigadier General, to P[eter] Casey, Cairo, [Ill.], 31 December 1861. 2 pages, 4to, boldly penned on pages 1 and 3 of a four-page gathering. Folds neatly reinforced from back . RESCUING "MRS GRANT'S HOPEFUL" FROM CONFEDERATE KIDNAPPERS An amusing letter, penned by Grant very early in the war, reporting to a relative that "My wife is growing uneasy at having one of her hopefuls [Frederick Dent Grant, their eldest son] so long in the midst of Secession as he now is. She is afraid that he may be captured and held as a hostage for some of the big guns we have, Mason & Slidell [the Confederate diplomats captured on the high seas]...if they had not been already released. I wish you would send him by the first Steamer coming down. Mrs. Grant and children send love to Emma and Jim, and will be glad to see any of your family..." Grant comments on the rampant corruption in the Army commissary department, and his mode of dealing with it: "I am tearing [up] all corrupt contracts made here in a way that may prove inconvenient to some honest men but I hope it will not touch your affairs, I send you an order I wrote immediately upon my return from the trip up the river." As explained in his Memoirs , when Grant left Galena for his Army post, he "took with me my eldest son, Frederick D. Grant, then a lad of eleven," and as the war clouds gathered, "wrote to Mrs. Grant, to relieve what I supposed would be her great anxiety for one so young going into danger..." ( Memoirs , Lib. of America edn., p.163). Young Frederick eluded kidnappers and returned to his family in Galena; a few years later he was with Grant at Vicksburg, where he received a slight wound. After the War Frederick attended West Point.
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