Ulysses S. Grant letters and documents 1867-1915

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Ulysses S. Grant letters and documents 1867-1915

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/6402

The collection consists of three letters, three documents, and one fragmentary note signed by Grant, 1869-1877; several letters to Grant, 1867-1876; letters mentioning Grant, 1868-1915; engraved portraits, a sketch map of the Battle of Island Number Ten (1862), and a few pieces of printed ephemera. Also, facsimiles, transcripts, and reproductions of Grant letters and documents, and newspaper clippings. Items signed by Grant include a letter of thanks to D. Van Nostrand for military books, dinner invitations to Horace Greeley, and a letter to John Bigelow declining to appoint Bigelow’s son a cadet at West Point. Signed documents consist of two commissions and a pardon. Letters to Grant include those from John Bigelow, Mark Baker Bird, John M. Dickey, William Greenleaf Eliot, Robert Harlan, William Frederick Havemeyer, and Edwin D. Morgan.

.2 linear ft. (1 box)

New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division

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SNAC Resource ID: 6314065

New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division

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Grant, Ulysses Simpson, 1822-1885

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Ulysses S. Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant, April 27, 1822, Point Pleasant, Ohio-died July 23, 1885, Wilton, New York) was the 18th president of the United States, serving from 1869 to 1877. As president, Grant was an effective civil rights executive who worked with the Radical Republicans during Reconstruction to protect African Americans, created the Justice Department, and reestablish the public credit. Promoted lieutenant-general, in 1864, Grant led the Union Army in winning the American Civ...

Bigelow, John, 1817-1911

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John Bigelow was born in Malden-on-Hudson, New York. He was admitted to the bar in 1838. From 1849 to 1861, he was one of the editors and co-owners of the New York Evening Post. He was active in the Republican Party and in 1860, President Abraham Lincoln appointed him American Consul in Paris in 1861 and later served as American ambassador to France. After the Civil War's conclusion, he returned to New York, where he assisted Samuel J. Tilden in opposing the corruption that flourished in New ...