The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1885-06-25
GRANTS H1sroY OF THE WAR.
Extracts From His Forthcoming IBook OF
Recol1ections.
Ne,c York Herald.

The personal Memoirs of U. s..
Grant" will soon be published by Messrs.
Charles L. Webster & Co. twill be a
book in two volumes, containing about
Eve hundred pages each, and it is safe to
say that no publication Of late years has
created so much curiosity and such vast
interest as to 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
settles all speculations as to his origin by
declaring that,he is of the eighth gene.
ration from Matthew Grant, who settled
in Dorchester, Mass, III the year 1880.
His grandfather Noah served in the war
of the Revolution and was present at the
battle of Bunker Hill.
LIFE AT WEST POINT.
General Grant thus tells the story of
some of the notable instance of his e1-
perience at West Point =
My father received letter from the
Hon. Thomas Morris, then United States
Senator from Ohio. When he read it he
said to me, "Ulysses, I believe you are
going to receive the appointment"
"What appointment inquired. "To
West Point; I have applied for it,"
"But I won't CO." I said. He said he
thought I would, and thought so too, if
he did. I really had no objection to
going to West Point, except that I had a
very exalted idea of the requirements
necessary to get through. did not
believe I possessed them, and could not
bear the idea of failing. There had been
four boys from our village or its immedi-
ate neighborhood who had graduated,
and; never failure ofany one appointed
from Georgetown, except in the: case of
the one whose place I was to take. He
was the son of DR.. Bailey, our nearest
and most intimate neighbor. Young
Bailey had been appointed in 1887.
Finding before the January examination
following that he could not pass, he
resigned and went to private school,
and remained there until the following
year, when he was re-appointed. But
before the next examination he was dis
missed. DR.. Bailey was proud and
sensitive man and felt the failure Of his
son so keenly that he forbade his return
home.
During my first years -encampment
General Scott visited West Point and
reviewed the cadets. With bis command.
ing figure, his quite colossal size and
snowy uniform, l thought him the finest
specimen of manhood my eyes had ever
beheld and the most to be envied. l
could never resemble him in appearance,
but I believe I did have presentiment
for moment that some day / should
occupy his place on review, although /
had no intention then of remaining in
the army. But my experience in horse
trade ten years before and the ridicule it
caused me were too fresh in my mind for
me to communicate this presentiment to
even my most intimate chum. The next
Summer Martin Van Buren, President of
the United States, visited West Point
and reviewed the cadets. But he did not
impress me with the awe that Scott in.
spired. In fact regarded General Scott
and Captain @. F. Smith, the comman-
dant of cadets, as the two men most to
be envied by the nation.-z was impa.
tient to get on my uniform and see how
it looked, besides probably wanting my
old schoolmates, particularly the girls, to
see.me in it, But the conceitwas knock
ed .out:of me by two little circumstances
that happened soon after the arrival of
the clothes, and which gave me distaste
for military uniform that never recov-
erad from