The Man Who Saved the Union (109 page)

“To it we owe”
:
New York Herald
, Aug. 13, 1879.

“We all know … solemn business sessions”
:
New York Herald
, Aug. 15, 1879.

“Nagasaki we found … the whole people”
: Grant journal, Jan. 23–July 26, 1879.

“What I have learned in Japan … their own advantage”
: Conversation with Meiji emperor, Aug. 10, 1879.

CHAPTER 81

“Some time has passed … of your city”
:
New York Times
, Sept. 21, 1879.

“I cannot venture”
: to Borie, Sept. 28, 1879.

“It seems like returning home”
: Speech, Oct. 13, 1879.

“It is gratifying”
: Speech, Oct. 14, 1879,
Papers of Grant
, 29:258n.

“No honors that I received”
: Speech, Oct. 28, 1879.

“When I was in Europe”
: Interview in
Chicago Inter Ocean
, Oct. 31, 1879, in
Papers of Grant
, 29:275n.

“I am very glad”
:
Chicago Tribune
, Nov. 5, 1879.

“I always like to come here”
:
Cincinnati Enquirer
, Nov. 12, 1879, in
Papers of Grant
, 29:285n.

“We think now of going”
: to Ellen Grant Sartoris, Nov. 8, 1879.

“The first time I ever saw General Grant”
:
The Autobiography of Mark Twain
, ed. Charles Neider (1959), 316-18.

“He never moved … his body ached”
: Ron Powers,
Mark Twain
(2005), 428-31.

CHAPTER 82

“All I want”
: to Washburne, Feb. 2, 1880.

“The election before us”
: H. Wayne Morgan,
From Hayes to McKinley
(1969), 91-92.

“Individually”
: to Conkling, June 10, 1880.

“Oh, Ulys”
:
Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant
, 197.

“Do you not desire success?”
:
Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant
, 321-22.

“I have nothing to say”
: Statement to Chicago
Advance
, July 1880,
Papers of Grant
, 29:439.

“I feel a very deep interest”
: to Garfield, Aug. 5, 1880.

“I have never made”
: Speech, Aug. 27, 1880.

“I am a Republican”
:
New York Times
, Sept. 29, 1880.

“He is vain”
:
Cincinnati Gazette
, Oct. 5, 1880, in
Papers of Grant
, 29:461-62.

“Hancock is a man”
:
Chicago Inter Ocean
, Oct. 6, 1880, in
Papers of Grant
, 29:465n.

“Out there”
: Speeches (two),
New York Times
, Oct. 22, 1880.

“Every Northern state”
:
New York Times
, Oct. 31, 1880.

“I heartily congratulate you”
: to Garfield, Nov. 11, 1880.

CHAPTER 83

“By years of colossal labor”
:
New York Herald
, Oct. 17, 1880.

“One thing is certain”
: to Badeau, Aug. 12, 1880.

“You know Buck is married!”
: to Ellen Grant Sartoris, Nov. 4, 1880.

“But he has something”
: to John Long, Nov. 12, 1880.

“We are boarding”
: to Ellen Grant Sartoris, Nov. 4, 1880.

“Under no circumstances”
: to Logan, Feb. 9, 1881.

“In any other great nation”
: Morgan et al. to Pierrepont, Nov. 9, 1880,
Papers of Grant
, 30:137n.

“I am sure I turned”
:
Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant
, 323.

“I hope with you”
: to John Creswell, Nov. 14, 1880.

“Harmony in the Republican party”
: to Garfield, Jan. 26, 1881.

“I sincerely hope”
: Remarks quoted in
Methodist Quarterly Review
, Oct. 1881, 648.

CHAPTER 84

“Your kind letter”
: to Clemens, Jan. 14, 1881.

“They have thirteen years”
:
New York Times
, Nov. 12, 1880.

“I have long been of the opinion”
: Speech, April 22, 1881.

“I am completely disgusted”
: to Badeau, May 7, 1881.

“Garfield is a man”
:
Pittsburg Times
, June 17, 1881, in
Papers of Grant
, 30:237-38.

“dastardly attempt”
: to Badeau, July 27, 1881.

“Of course my hopes”
:
New York World
, July 5, 1881.

“During the months of August”
:
Chicago Inter Ocean
, Sept. 7, 1881, in
Papers of Grant
, 30:265.

“You will please excuse me”
:
New York Times
, Sept. 20, 1881.

“I can hardly say”
: to Badeau, Dec. 11, 1882.

“The defeat was expected”
: to John Russell Young, Nov. 28, 1882.

“The reading of the whole”
: to Arthur, Dec. 22, 1881.

“An Undeserved Stigma”
:
North American Review
, Dec. 1882, 539, 545.

“The undersigned”
: from Theodore Lyman et al., Nov. 27, 1882,
Papers of Grant
, 30:434.

“As you state”
: from Longstreet, Dec. 30, 1882,
Papers of Grant
, 30:435.

“He had lost his hat”
:
New York Times
, June 30, 1882.

CHAPTER 85

“I have washed my hands”
: Interview for
Louisville Courier-Journal
, June 3, 1883, in
Papers of Grant
, 31:42.

“There is no man”
:
New York Times
, July 16, 1883.

“I am willing that Mr. Ward”
: to Fish, July 6, 1882.

“It is my plan”
: Hamlin Garland, “A Romance of Wall Street: The Grant and Ward Failure,”
McClure’s Magazine
, April 1898, 500.

“We are much better off”
: to Ellen Grant Sartoris, Nov. 24 and Dec. 15, 1883.

“almost a millionaire”
: Deposition, March 26, 1885.

“General Grant was informed”
:
New York Times
, May 7, 1884.

“The Grant family is ruined”
: to Clara Cramer, June 8, 1884.

“I pointed out”
:
The Autobiography of Mark Twain
, ed. Charles Neider (1959), 237.

“Sell
me
the memoirs”
:
Autobiography of Mark Twain
, 240-41.

CHAPTER 86

“I learned afterward”
:
The Autobiography of Mark Twain
, ed. Charles Neider (1959), 252.

“It is a matter for great congratulation”
:
New York Times
, Feb. 20, 1885.

“Sinking into the Grave”
:
New York Times
, March 1, 1885.

“The composition is entirely my own”
: to Webster & Co., May 2, 1885.

“It was a busy time”
:
New York Times
, May 2, 1885.

“Since coming … I signify all three”
: Notes, June 17 to July 20, 1885,
Memoirs
, 1111-20.

“If it is within God’s providence … in the end”
:
Memoirs
, 1116-19.

“He asked me with his pencil”
:
Autobiography of Mark Twain
, 252.

“I have my full share”
:
Autobiography of Mark Twain
, 253.

“I am older than your Father”
: from Sherman, March 17, 1885,
Papers of Grant
, 31:388n.

“profound sympathy”
: Resolution of Grand Army of the Republic, June 24, 1885, in Robert B. Beath,
History of the Grand Army of the Republic
(1889), 296.

“Tell the boys”
: Message, May 14, 1885.

“Look after our dear children”
: to Julia Dent Grant, June 29, 1885.

“I must try”
:
Memoirs
, 1118, 1115.

“Buck has brought up”
:
Memoirs
, 1118.

CHAPTER 87

“In General Grant’s death”
:
New York Times
, July 31, 1885.

“Ulysses S. Grant”
:
Washington Post
, Aug. 3, 1885.

“I heard him say once”
:
New York Times
, Aug. 3, 1885.

“Everything has been said”
:
New York Times
, Aug. 1, 1885.

“Why, you cannot trust”
:
New York Times
, Aug. 3, 1885.

“He was the truest”
:
New York Times
, July 24, 1885.

“Wherever General Grant’s body lies”
: Ron Powers,
Mark Twain
(2005), 504.

“There was a burst of sunlight”
:
New York Times
, Aug. 6, 1885.

…Grant’s casualties … were lower than Lee’s
: James M. McPherson,
The Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War
(2007), 113; Jean Edward Smith,
Grant
(2001), 15, 629n6.

INDEX

abolitionism,
9.1
,
52.1

     
Dred Scott
decision and

     
emancipation proclamation on

     
in Harpers Ferry raid

     
of John Brown

Adams, Charles Francis,
64.1
,
65.1
,
65.2

Adams, John Quincy,
2.1
,
4.1
,
65.1

Aden

African Americans,
63.1
,
65.1
,
74.1
,
78.1
,
87.1

     citizenship question and,
11.1
,
51.1
,
52.1

     education of,
62.1
,
83.1

     
in Grant’s legacy

     
in prisoner exchanges

     
in Reconstruction era

     
Slaughterhouse Cases and

     suffrage issue and,
4.1
,
51.1
,
52.1
,
57.1
,
83.1

     
see also
slaves, slavery

Akerman, Amos,
63.1
,
63.2
,
70.1

Alabama,
14.1
,
62.1
,
79.1

Alabama
, CSS,
64.1
,
64.2
,
65.1
,
68.1
,
70.1

Alaska,
60.1
,
63.1

Albert, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

Alden, Captain

Alexander, Edward Porter

Allen, Vanderbilt

American Party, U.S.

American Revolution,
1.1
,
2.1
,
57.1

     
Loyalists in

Ames, Oakes

Ampudia, Pedro de,
4.1
,
5.1

“anaconda plan”

Anderson, Robert,
7.1
,
15.1
,
15.2
,
24.1

Angier, Nedom

Antietam, Battle of

     
casualties in

     
Confederate retreat in

     
lost order in

Anti-Slavery Society

Appler, Jesse

Appomattox campaign

     
Confederate surrender in

     
evacuation of Richmond in

     Lee-Grant exchanges in,
49.1
,
49.2

Arapaho Indians

Arkansas,
30.1
,
35.1
,
65.1
,
65.2
,
75.1

     
electoral conflict in

Army, U.S.

Army of Northern Virginia, C.S.A.,
27.1
,
30.1
,
39.1
,
40.1
,
49.1
,
49.2
,
49.3
,
49.4
,
87.1

     shortages and desertions in,
39.1
,
47.1

Army of the James, U.S.,
39.1
,
39.2
,
47.1
,
49.1

Army of the Ohio, U.S.,
23.1
,
58.1

Army of the Potomac, U.S.,
25.1
,
30.1
,
33.1
,
36.1
,
36.2
,
39.1
,
39.2
,
39.3
,
48.1
,
84.1
,
87.1

     
Grant’s review of

Army of the Tennessee, U.S.,
36.1
,
48.1
,
82.1
,
87.1

     
reunion of

Army of Virginia, U.S.

Arnold, Isaac

Arthur, Chester,
82.1
,
84.1
,
85.1
87.1