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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 1 1 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4 1 1 Browse Search
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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 55: Fessenden's death.—the public debt.—reduction of postage.— Mrs. Lincoln's pension.—end of reconstruction.—race discriminations in naturalization.—the Chinese.—the senator's record.—the Cuban Civil War.—annexation of San Domingo.—the treaties.—their use of the navy.—interview with the presedent.—opposition to the annexation; its defeat.—Mr. Fish.—removal of Motley.—lecture on Franco-Prussian War.—1869-1870. (search)
d out. (Ante, p. 398, note.) General Grant's accuracy as a narrator of military affairs has been contested by several authors. Misunderstandings: Halleck and Grant; J. B. Fry, Magazine of American History, vol. XVI. p. 561. The Mistakes of Grant; by W. S. Rosecrans, North American Review, December, 1885, pp. 580-599. Grant versus The Record; by Carswell McClellan. From Chattanooga to Petersburg; by W. F. Smith. Gen. J. I). Cox's review of Grant's Personal Memoirs, in the New York Nation, Feb. 25 and July 1, 1886. Colonel Forney also, being invited by Babcock to make a statement, wrote that he understood the senator to say that he would cheerfully support the treaties; but he was unable to recall the exact words. Letter to Babcock, June 6, 1870, Congressional Globe, Dec. 21, 1870, p. 242. The words, however, as recalled by him later, do not contain a promise to support them, but only an assurance that the senator would give his best thought to them. Philadelphia Press, Oct. 3