The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1885-06-11
GEN. GRANT MEMO R
ALMOST READY FOR BOOK AGENTS
A Business like Pun Given the Work by
Reproducing tho Real Story OF tho
Surrender OF General Lee;
Tho Apple Tree Tale.

NEW YORK, juno 0.-The commercial
Advertiser publishes nearly page OF
extracts from General Grants personal
memoirs, which will DO published
within a few months. The first volume
Is completed and the second nearly so
The extracts given show The work 10 be
written In terse and sturdy Anglo
Saxon, with here aud there
The dedication il in fac smile
OF the generals manuscript and reads
as follows:
American soldier and "a. sailor = c,,xr
"New York, May %, 1881
He begins by saying that he IL oi
American stock on both sides for many
generations. Matthew Grant descended
In the eighth generation, reached Dor
chester, Massachusetts, il 1850, from
Dorchester, England. His great,grand
father, Noah Grant, hold
commission in the British army,
and his grandfather, clso
named Moan, also served ia inc war of
the revolution. He gives numerous an
ecdotss, 'snd among other matters OF IN
tcresg jUuChing tho inner history OF The
war, 90 icl.8 Of General L9e's surren-
dor ana taNes occasion in tho course OF
IL 10 explode the famous story of the
surrender under the gsale tree. Id
says that there was apple orchard
across the little valley il3nI the count
house, Quo ITeo oil wnicn was Gloss
10 the road side; thaU General Ba5cock
reported 20 hiu (Greut) that no had
found General Leo sitnnS under TINS
tree ana had brought him within tue
FeuuEG. ltlas 10 tho house OF u man
namrd Mclean, where TN" Confederate
general aud one Of his s,nif were await
INK Gbnsgai Grant. OF their interview
no aays:
wWhsi went into this house l found
Genera Lse. We greeted each other and
afLer snuking hands took cur seats.
What his feelings were do not know.
Being man OF much dignity and an Inn
psnetrable face, IL was Impossible 10 say
whether he .elt inwardly glad that the
end had finally come, or whether ne
felt sadly over the result and was too
manly to show 1t. Whatever his feel.
ings were, they were entirely concealed
from observation; but my own feelings
which had been quite apparent ON the
sad and depressed. felt like anything
rather than rejoicing at the downfall OF
the foe that had fought Sc long ana
calamity and had suffered Tor cause
which l believed to DO one Of the worst
Tor which Ia people ever fought and Tor
which there was not the least pretext.
] DO not question, however, tho SINGER
ity of the great mass OF those
wno were opposed TO US. General
Lee was dressed in full uniform,
entirely now, and wearing a sword OF
considerable valua-very likely the
sword that had been presented by
the state of Virginia; 81 all events II
was an entirely ditferentsword from the
one that would ordinarily Do worn IN
tho field. In lny rough suit, which Wa
tho nniiofm OF. prlyatt,
with the Straps of general, !
must have contrasted very strangely
with man so handsomely dressed, SIX
feet high and of faultless form. But
this was not matter that thought Of
until afterward. General Lee and !
aoon fell into conversation about old
army times. He remarked that he re
me mbered me very we'll in the old army
and l told him, as matter of course
that remembered him perfectly bui
owing to the difference in years
there being about 1G years difference II
oar ages, and our rank, newer though,
it very likely had attracted his stten-
ton sufficiently to be remembered attSi
such d long period. Our conyersaCioA
grew so pleasant that almost forgo
the object of our meeting"