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I 188 Fleet Stbeet , London : October 1885 . MESSRS . SAMPSON LOW , MAR 8 TON , & CO . 'S jFY > s £ Z £ s £ 0 / Announcements for the Coming Season . In Two Volumes , Demy 8 vo Cloth ., * of , about extra , 1 Price , £ OO Pages 28 s . , with , over 6 O Maps , < fcc . PERSONAL MEMOIRS GENERAL U . S . GRANT . II By a special arrangement with the American Publisher , Messrs . SAMPSON LOW I k CO . have much pleasure in announcing that they have secured the English and I Continental Copyright of this great Work ; which will be published in I England and America on the same day . I Before his death the General handed to his publi ' shers the finished manuscripts of I the being com made plete with work the . Second The whole Volume of the . First Volume is already in type , and progress is II I Volumes It mus at t be separate mentioned intervals , however . , Thus that circumstances the First mak Volume e it necessary will be to issue elivered the Two on I the First of December nextand , Second Volume will be delivered some I few weeks later , but it must be unde , rstood that Subscriptions and Orders can be received I only for the complete work . I I 80 i Chapters ^ The complete ) -with over -work 5 O in Maps Two . Volumes Valuable "will Facsimiles contain about of import l , 3 OO ant pa Lett ges e rs in I I and executed Docum by ent eminent s never . Artist before s expressly published for ; and these Fine Volumes Steel . Plates and Etchings , I PREFACE . * I ! write Although anything frequentl for publication y urged by . friends At the to age write of nearl my y memoirs sixty-tw , o I I had received determined an injury never from to a do fall so , , which nor to announcement confined study a p me leasant closel of pastime a y failure to the . . house Shortl This , y while was after fol , it l the owed did rascal not soon apparentl ity after of a by y business universal affect my partner depression general developed health of . all itself This securities by made the , which seemed to threaten the extinction of a good part of the income still retained , and for which I am to indebted write a to few the arti kindl cles y act for of him friends . I . consented At this juncture for the the editor it of the me ' Century for at Magazine that moment ' asked I was me I ia jiring an important upon borrowed one for money me , for . The good work or evil I found ; I hope , congenial for the money , former and I . determined gave In preparin ; to g continue these volumes it . The for event the I I public whether , I on have the entered National upon or the Confedera task with te side the , other sincere than des the ire to unavoidable avoid doing injustice injustice of to not any making one , I because Mention the often subj where ect is too special large mention to be treated is due of . in There two must volumes be in many such errors way of as to omission do justice in thi to s all work the , officers and men engaged . There were thousands of instances , during the rebellion , of individual , allied company to , . regi The mental troops and engaged brigade in deeds them of will heroism have to which look to deserve the detailed special reports mention of , a their nd are individual not here commanders for the full history of those deeds . The first volume , as well as a portion of the second , almost ho was writte to the n before point I of had death reason , and to it suppose became I impossible was in a critical for me condition to attend of to health anything . Latera for weeks l was ; reduced I have as , ¦« pwson wever I could should , regained have devote allowe somewhat to d mysel such of work f m my ore . strength J time would ; I , have and have am more used able hope my , best often ot satisf efforts , to ying devote , with the the as expectation many aid of hours my of eldest a the c ^ ay public son a , comments * .. D . Grant are , assisted own by and his show brothers how , to I verif saw y the from matters the record treated s © very ofwhether statement others of fact saw gi them ven . in The the ¦ ' . doping tome light they or will not my . meet With , the these approval remarks of the I reader present . these volumes to , the public , asking no favour , but W 3 C < XJST MAoGuEaoitNew YorkJul 11885 . < U . S , GRANT . ¦ Ig , F , i , y , ¦ '¦ ' ¦ u , ¦ -, ¦ ¦ ' . ' , . = M

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