...PERSONAL MEMOIRS OF U. S. GRANT by U. S. Grant A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication P... ...nn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant by U. S. Grant is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sit... ...ry. His eldest son, Samuel, took lands on the east side of the Connecticut River, opposite Windsor, which have been held and occupied by descendants o... ...had a family of nine children, and was drowned at the mouth of the Kanawha River, Vir- ginia, in 1825, being at the time one of the wealthy men of the... ...rris, then United States Senator from Ohio. When he read it he said to me, Ulysses, I believe you are going to receive the appoint- ment.” “What appoi... ...t State, never had exer- cised jurisdiction over the territory between the Nueces River and the Rio Grande. Mexico had never recognized the inde- pend... ...aintained that, even if indepen- dent, the State had no claim south of the Nueces. I am aware that a treaty, made by the Texans with Santa Anna while ... ...the surrender, additional reinforcements arrived. During the siege General Sherman had been sent to Smithland, at the mouth of the Cumberland River, t... ...me up with supplies or reinforcements brought a note of encouragement from Sherman, asking me to call upon him for any assistance he could render and ...

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