An occasional publication of the Ulysses S. Grant Association that serves to supplement The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant by providing both interpretations of Grant and source material impossible or inappropriate to include in the volumes. This volume also provides an ap propriate vehicle for the Association editors to use the recently developed computer-assisted text-processing methods. The entire manuscript was stored and edited on magnetic computer tape at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. Mne monic coding of ...
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An occasional publication of the Ulysses S. Grant Association that serves to supplement The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant by providing both interpretations of Grant and source material impossible or inappropriate to include in the volumes. This volume also provides an ap propriate vehicle for the Association editors to use the recently developed computer-assisted text-processing methods. The entire manuscript was stored and edited on magnetic computer tape at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. Mne monic coding of the final tape was ac complished with definitions developed by Southern Illinois University Press, reducing the typesetter's function to making minor adjustments in his programs to accept the tape. These six articles and documents cover a wide range of topics. Richard N. Current and E. B. Long call for a reappraisal of Grant, with Current examining Grant's role as a leader of a nation only nominally at peace and Long focusing on the controversies sur rounding his generalship. Charles G. Elling ton traces Grant's journey across the Isthmus of Panama in 1852, which left him with a life long desire to build a transcontinental canal. Horatio E. Wirtz examines Grant's little-known role as a mediator in a dispute be tween China and Japan over the Ryukyu Islands. John M. Hoffman presents an un published account of the battle of Chat tanooga from the journal of Quartermaster General M. C. Meigs. David L. Wilson and John Y. Simon make available a memoir by Grant's personal cipher clerk and telegra pher, Samuel H. Beckwith.
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Small 4to. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering. xii, 145pp. Illustrations, maps. Fine. A superb, pristine first edition of this slim gathering of six essays by leading Grant scholars--with a choice autograph addition: Tipped to an inner flyleaf is a Typed Letter Signed from editor Simon, 1p, 8½" X 11", Carbondale, IL, 1986 July 15. Addressed to noted Lincoln and Civil War scholar Arnold F. Gates (1914-93). Near fine. On letterhead of "The Ulysses S. Grant Association, " the world's long-time leading Grant scholar (1933-2008) chats with his friend about a book about to be published: "I am just delighted to learn about the imminent publication of your book. Judging from our correspondence, you have certainly worked long and hard, and I hope the satisfaction of completion provide more than ample compensation...." Signed simply "John" in black ballpoint.
