The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1885-06-18
Gen. Grants Life.

| EXTRACTS FROM HIS FORTHCOMING BOOK OF
| RECOLLECTIONS. MEMORIES OF WEST POINT
| INCIDENTS OF BATTLES. ANECDOTES OF
| FAMOUS MEN.
The Personal Memoirs of L. 5. Grant, will
| soon be published by Messrs. Charles l.. Web
ster 4 Co. II will be book in two volumes
containing about five hundred pages each, and
it is safe to say that no publication of late years
has created 50 much curiosity and such vast III
! terest - 10 its scope and contents.
The book will be dedicated ''to the American
soldier and sailor" 1t Will contain portraits
maps. plans and other illustrations.
| In the opening chapters General Grant set
| lies ali specuatiUns as TO his origin by declar-
ing that he is of the eighth generation from
Matthew Grant, who settled in Dorchester
Mass, in the year 1880. His grandfather Noah
served in the war of the Revolution and was
| Present al the battle Of Bunker HILL
HIS FIRST HORSE TRADE.
The General was an ingenious boy, if he is to
| be Judged by AN merdote of his bovhood;
| There was Mr.. Ea!S;on Gying within few
| miles of The village who owned a colt which
! Nefl much ~antcd. My father had offered so
fol II. hut lta~ton wanted 50. | was 50 anN-
jous 10 haNe the colt that after the owner left
| hc2ged to bC allowed to take him at the price
demanded. My father yielded. but said $50
was all the horse was worth, and told me 10
III that price: if it was not accepted was to
| oti + - 30, and if that would not get him 10
give the so. Al once mounted Il horse and
went for the colt. When got to Mr.. Ral>ton' 5
house | said TO him, Papa says ! may offer
you so for the colt, but if YOU won't take that
am to offer SD 30, and if you won't take that.
to give You $50 1t would not require a Con-
| necticut man to guess the price finally agreed
Upon IAi~ story j. nearly true. | certainly
showed Very plainly that | had come for the
colt and meant 10 have him. ! could not have
been over eight Years Old AT this time. | kent
lhr horse until he Was four wears old. when he
went blind and | sold him for SO. When |
went to MaySviIe to school in 1886, al the age
of fourteen, / recognized my colt is one of the
blind horses working on the Tread wheel of the
lFf'lhoat.
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idea of The reut,iremeut. necessary "a gpt
thrnnob all nnt L4Ji,.y. ,,o..,l!el tban,
} Ill ~, e'N @ 'N ,t, l,ii tileii :
had been fnllr boI, from our VILLAGE ar lis i'm
mediate nciut,borhood who had ,r,luated and
never a faillrr of any one ,.i7nointed ron
Georgetown. eyreut i'm the ca>r of thr one
" hose place | was 10 take. He was the son Of
Dr. Bailey. our nearest ana most intimate
neighbor. Young Bailey had been apuoiuIed in
1897. Finding before tie January examination
following thai he rouId NOT pass. he RESIGNED
and went to a private school, and remained
lhrre until Inc following wear, when he was
dismissed Dr. Bailey VA: a uroud and sensi-
live. man and felf rhe tailure OF his SON So keen
ly maj he forbade hi> retnln home
Durin0 my t,r,t yr.r-, rnr:,nlnmpnt General
Scott visited Wc,i Point and reviewed tbe
cadets, With his commanding tiGurp his ouitp
colossal >izt. and snowy uniform. thougbt
him me finest ,,rtimen nt muuhood nv p%cs
had ever beheld and The most t0 be enyief I
could never resemble him IN 4pne8ranre. bnt 7
believed did have a rrr,entimtnt for a moment
that some DAY should occupy his place on re-
view. although | llad no intention then of re-
manning in the army. But my eyperience in =.