...PERSONAL MEMOIRS OF U. S. GRANT by U. S. Grant A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication P... ...cation Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant by U. S. Grant is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...on from Mathew Grant, and sev- enth from Samuel. Mathew Grant’s first wife died a few years after their settlement in Windsor, and he soon after marri... ...their settlement in Windsor, and he soon after married the widow Rockwell, who, with her first husband, had been fellow-passengers with him and his fi... ...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... ...and but few east; and above all, there were no reporters prying into other people’s private affairs. Consequently it did not become generally known th... ..., when he executed the en- tire garrison of the Alamo and the villagers of Goliad. In taking military possession of T exas after annexation, the army ... ...he remains of a town called San Patricio, but the inhabitants had all been massacred by the Indians, or driven away. San Antonio was about equally div...

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