The National tribune., 1885-08-13

PERSONAL HISTORY OF o. s. GRANT BY
Albert D. Richardson. IPhblished by NJ. A. Win
ner Il Hatch, HartfordyGoms.

| Among all the war correspondents there wa:
no one more brilliant snd stxustworthy than A
d. Richardson, who, sfteria vivid experience
on fields of battle and IN thu prison pens of the
rebellion, fell victim TO the drunken rage oil
a brutal husband, who was crushing the life out
of gifted woman. Richardson was with Gen.
Grant from the time ths unknown Galena ex-
Captain took command of q brigade at Cairo
until the correspondent fell into the rebels
hands i'll attempting to1un the Vicksburg bat
teries on river steamer. He knew the Gen
eral more Intimately perhaps than any other
circle OF chosen friendse Hehad his confidence
to rare degree, and was given favors that few
others ever received. This was manifested in
many ways when he started to write his Per-
sOnal Life of U. S. Grant," and the subject of
the biography indicated Enthusiastically that he
was such biographer he wanted to do the
work. Mr.. Richardson showed himself worthy
of that confidence, and his work is not only one
of the very best lives of Grant that has or can
be written, but it has the charm of Richardson s
own graceful style, which is not surpassed by
any ones. Such is the great value of the work
that the publishers yielded to solicitations, and
have gotten out a new edition, with all the facts
relating to the great General brought down to
date, by the competent hand of K. III. Fletcher.
The book is illustrated by 80 engravings, six
maps, and ac-similies Of the famous letters to
Buckner, Lee, Sheridan, Sherman, etc. In a
letter to us the publishers say:
In the New York World of July 25 under head of
" Grants Last Legacy, last paragraph refers to
to be COMPOUNDED with the Generals book, and
says the General thought the best way was to let
the fraud be known.'
Hartford) with title similar to the Generals book
of course the insinuation or attack is upon
Hartford Personal History Of y. s. Grant" The
World refused to make correction claiming the ar
tcle did not refer to our book. Now, inasmuch
our book was published under its present exact
title long before the General ever thought of writ
ing his Personal Memoirs of IT, s. Grant" it is
evident that the fault of the similarity of titles lays
with the General, not with us, and it shows the
want OF experience on the part of the publishers of
Grants book iii allowing the General to make
of a title so nearly like that of another book of
same nature. The appropriation or fraud if any
not the Personal History.
The Generals father and mother became
deeply Interested and took great pride in this book,
contributing largely to the accounts of Grants early
life. So that the book contains not only the most
of the identical stories given in the Generals book
but scores of Others as they came direct from the
lips OF his parents While the Generals war record
is ali that be desired. his famous battles move
ments, etc, are complete and fully given.
Government officials, personal friends of the Gen
eral, and all who have been called upon, have
cheerfully rendered aid and assisted to make this
history complete one, that should stand
authority above anything else written about the
General.
Even the General himself contributed toward
the book. He loaned the original of the famous
Fort Donelson surrender letter to Mr. Richard
son to make the fac si,ite for the Personal History;
also, Gen. Buckners reply. both of which appeared
originally in the Hartford book, and still appears
in that book, notwithstanding the publishers of
the Memoirs would have the public believe that
it is an original feature in their book The same is
true respecting the portrait of the General when a
Lieutenant at q years of age The General did not
furnish the daguerreotype from which that picture
was taken, but il found by Mr.. Richardson
somewhere among the Generals friends, and it was
tn Nv h.
which it did, and was original with that book, and
appears there in the present editions although the
publishers of - Memoirs " announce that il never
appeared in print till in their book.
The story about Grant, VIXEN boy, going to
buy horse for his father and paying more than he
needed to, first appeared in print in Richardson's
. Personal History" though the Memoirs" claim
the credit of it, and so we might go on citing many
instances of incidents aud valuable documents and
features which it claimed original for the Gen
erals book, which really simply taken from
Richardson's Personal History" and il seems in
bad taste for Webster IL Co. to, deude the public
into the notion that the Generals book is purely
original and not-to-be- gotten-eisewhere publica-
ton
The price, So so, places it within the reach of every
one 5000 copies of it having been already sold
being four and one-hdif dollars less than the price
charged for Gen. Grants own work. We are able
to give complete history of the General for the
price we do, because author sticks to his text.
He has written about Gen. Grant not some one
else, therefore the single volume of 630 pages is able
to contain far more probably cice much informa-
ton concerning the General as his work,
which, though there two volumes says COM
little about him but is filed up largely
with matter concerning officers and other people
who We're connected with him during the war.
As a history, Mr.. Richardson's book is really a
more useful and satisfactory than the Generals
own, because the latter's book will not be a COM
plete record of his life, but will only certain
portions of it, which will be disappointment to
those people who imagine they are to get his entire
very sparngy of his early life, closes his book
with the war; Our book covers the entire life-full
account of death and funeral obsequies-down
to the present date, thus giving an additional
record of about IL years, covering period of very
general interest. Most readers students of history
and libraries will prefer complete history of the
great soldier.
Many people think Grants book is his complete
life; they will be disappointed
THE SOLDIER IN OUR CIVIL WAR A PIC
torial History of the Conflict. Vol II. Pub
lished by the j. H. Brown Publishing Company
New York. Sold only by subscription.
This is volume II and last of this magnificent
work. 1t is handsome folio, the size of
page of the illustrated papers, and the illustra-
tions, which are eOpious, are mainly reproduc-
tiOns of pictures made during the war, by such
talented artists as Forbes, Waud, Taylor, Hall,
Becker, LOWE, Schell, Crane and Others who
were eyewitnesses to the strife. The historical
text accompanying the pictures is from the
pens of Paul F. MOttelay and T.. Campbell |
Copeland, who have had the assistance of many !
struggle. To this is added an introduction by
Gen. Robert b. Beath, Past Commander-in in |
Chief, GAR; q History of the Grand Army |
of the Republic, by Gen. Paul Van Dervoort,
Past Commander-in-C Chief GAR; History
of the Sons Of Veterans, by A. p. Davis and |
Frank P. Merrill, and History of the organ
ization and development of the Woman's Relief |
Corps The Appendix contains a very volu-
minous and carefully compiled Chronological |
Table of the principal events in the war, with !
number engaged, the commanders names, and |
the losses, so far as the records show them |
The frontspiece of this volume is magnifi-
cent picture of Gen. Grant, and at the close is |
an equally fine one of r. E. Lee. 1t is the best |
book that one can lay before the youth of the |
and to give them correct ideas of the character |
and magnitude of the great war. The public |
appreciates this fact, for more than $4,000 cop |
les of the book have already been sold. There |
should be 100000.
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