The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-06-10
GEN. GRANTS MEMOIRS.
ALMOST READY FOR BOOK AGENTS
A Buslness.like Puff Given the Work by
Reproducing the Real Story of the
Surrender of General Lee.
The Apple Tree Tale.

NEW YORK, June 9.-The Commercial
Advertiser publishes nearly q page of
extracts from General Grants personal
memoirs, which will be published
within a few months, The first volume
is completed and the second nearly 80.
The extracts given show the work TO be
written in terse and sturdy Anglo
Saxon, with hero and there
"a touch OF quiet humor.
The dedication is in fac smile
Of the generals manuscript and reads
as follows:
"1heso volumes are dedicated to the
American soldier and sailor.
,- "U. S, GRANT.
"New York, May %, 1886"
lie begins by saying that no Is OF
American stock on both sides for many
generations. Matthew Grant descended
in the eighth generation, reached Dor
chester, Massachusetts, in 1880, from
Dorchester, England. His great-grand-
father, Noah Grant, held a
commission in the British army,
aud his grandfather, also
named Moan, also served in the war of
the revolution. He gives numerous an
ecdotesi ana among other matters of in
terest touching the inner history of the
war, he tells of General Lees surren-
der and takes occasion in the course of
1t to explode the famous story of the
surrender under the apple tree. He
says that there was an apple orchard
across the little valley from the court
house, one tree OF which was close
to the roadside; that General Babcock
reported to him (GranD that he had
found General Lee sitting under this
tree and had brought him within tue
Federal lines TO the house of man
named Mclean, whore tho Confederate
general and one of his staff were await
lg General Grant, or their interview
he says:
"When went into the house l found
General Lee. We greeted each other and
after shaking hands took our seats.
What his feelings were do not know.
Being man ofmuch dignity aud an inn
penetrable face, IL was impossible TO say
whether he ielt inwardly glad that the
end had finally come, or whether he
telt sadly over the result and was too
manly TO show IL. Whatever his feel
ings were, they were entirely concealed
from observation; but my own feelings
which had been quite apparent on tue
receipt of his letter, were
sad and depressed. felt like anything
rather than rejoicing at the downfall OF
the foe that had fought 80 long and
calamity and had suffered for a cause
which believed 10 be one of the worst
for which a people ever fought and for
which there was not the least pretext.
| do not question, however, the SINGER.
ily of the great mass of those
VINO were oppo ed 20 us. General
Lee was dressed in full uniform,
entirely new, and wearing a sword of
considerable value-very likely the
sword that had been presented by
the State OF Virginia; at all events Il
was an entirely different sword from the
one that would ordinarily be worn In
the field. In my rough suit, which was
tho uniform OF private
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 I thought OF
until afterward. General Lee and
soon foil into conversation about old
army times. He remarked that no re-.
memberod me very well In the old army
ana L told him, rs a matter of course,
that / remembered him perfectly, but
owing to tho difference in years,
there being about 10 years difference la
our ages, and our rank, never thought
y very likely l had attracted his alton
ton sufficiently TO be remembered after
such a long period. Our conversation
grew so pleasant that | almost forgot
the object OF our meeting"