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Ulysses S. Grant Newly Returned from His Presidentially Ordered Tour of the Decimated South Recommends a War Hero to Those Europeans Favorable to the Union Cause

1865réf. 3776421/12/1865. Ulysses S. Grant through his intelligence determination iron will and patriotism was the military man most responsible for leading the United States through the greatest time of crisis and chaos in the nation’s history. As general of the Army during the Civil War he commanded hundreds of thousands of soldiers leading the Union Army to victory over the Confederacy. Moreover all recognized that his strategy had compelled Lee and the Confederacy to fight the kind of war they could not win. Later as president he guided the nation through Reconstruction helping to bind the wounds between North and South while empowering newly freed African Americans. In November 1865 President Andrew Johnson sent Grant on a fact-finding tour of the defeated South to assess conditions and report back on Reconstruction. Grant returned and submitted his report to Johnson on December 18 1865. Grant recommended continuing a reformed Freedmen's Bureau though he advised against using Black troops in garrisons believing it discouraged farm labor. Johnson seized on the generally lenient tone of Grant's report to bolster his own position: Grant's report recommended a lenient Reconstruction policy and that December Johnson declared the reconstruction process complete — a declaration that outraged Radical Republicans in Congress who had just reconvened that same month and were refusing to seat the newly elected Southern representatives including several former Confederate generals and cabinet officers. Samuel Stephen Curtis was born in 1838 in McConnelsville Ohio the son of Samuel Ryan Curtis the future Union major general and congressman from Iowa. Before the war he made his way west to the Colorado gold country where he became a prominent figure in the young territory — laying out the streets of Denver naming one Curtis Street after himself building a business in real estate mercantile trade and mining and serving as the city's postmaster. When the Civil War broke out Colorado's territorial governor sent him east to Fort Laramie to secure arms and munitions for the territory's volunteer companies then on to Washington to lobby for funding — missions he carried out successfully enough to earn a major's commission in the 2nd Colorado Infantry. He was promoted to lieutenant colonel in 1862 and joined the staff of his father then commanding in the Trans-Mississippi theater serving as his aide-de-camp through campaigns in Arkansas and later duty with the Departments of Kansas Missouri and the Northwest. He briefly left his father's staff to command Camp Weld Colorado's training post near Denver at the request of territorial governor John Evans before returning to serve alongside his father for the remainder of the war. Mustered out of the volunteer service at war's end Curtis embarked on a tour of Europe in December 1865 Letter signed Washington December 21 1865 on official “Head-Quarters Armies of the United States” letterhead. “Col. S.S. Curtis late an officer of the Volunteer Service of the United States is about visiting Europe on a trip of information and pleasure. His services and late rank entitle him to consideration abroad from those who have felt interested on the success of the National Cause.” <img class=""alignnone wp-image-25018 size-post-window"" src=""https://cdn.raabcollection.com/wp-content/uploads/20231204144051/Folder-site-11-1600x1327.jpg"" alt=""historical memorabilia dealer"" width=""1600"" height=""1327"" /> unknown books

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[Grant, Ulysses S; Hamilton Fish; William Tecumseh Sherman; et al]Biblio.com

Ulysses S. Grant Treaty of Washington Signed Document Collection.

réf. 143272Rare collection of documents related to the 1871 Treaty of Washington including signatures of all of the key figures involved in its signing including President Ulysses S. Grant his Secretary of State Hamilton Fish and the British delegation led by George Robinson Earl de Grey and Ripon. The collection was assembled by Frederic Daustini Cremer who acted as secretary to de Grey and travelled with him and his son Viscount Goderich to Washington for the proceedings where he also obtained letters by William Sherman amongst others for his collection and contains: Two lined folio pages containing the signatures of the British and American signatories of the Treaty of Washington including: the British High Commissioners George Robinson the Earl de Grey and Ripon chairman Stafford Northcote Edward Thornton John Macdonald and Montague Bernard and the American delegation U.S. Secretary of State Hamilton Fish chairman Robert Schenck Samuel Nelson Ebenezer Hoar and George Williams with seven other protagonists. 2 pages folio written on recto only on lined paper watermark 'Department of State/ US' creased page one affixed to an album leaf page two loose dated at head "May 8 1871 11am." A portrait photograph of President Ulysses S. Grant seated in an armchair signed in ink on lower margin "U.S. Grant." Affixed to the reverse of the above album leaf. An autograph note in the third person from General W. T. Sherman to Earl de Grey accepting an invitation to dine on US Army Headquarters notepaper. One page on a bifolium lined paper affixed to an album leaf dated "28 February 1871." Two autograph letters signed "U.S. Grant" the first to Hamilton Fish making arrangements to meet the Italian Minister on Executive Mansion notepaper one page on a bifolium creased dated 13 May 1870; the second to an unknown recipient arranging to meet at Harrisburg 3 pages on a bifolium lined paper torn along fold creased sent from Long Branch N.J. 6 August 1870 both affixed to an album leaf with an accompanying letter to Frederic Daustini Cremer on Executive Mansion notepaper sending him ".an autograph letter of Gen Grant's as a memento. it is one selected for the reason that it is entirely unofficial." Three pages on a bifolium sent from Washington 5 May 1871. An autograph letter signed "Hamilton Fish" to Hon Ogden Hoffman of San Francisco a letter of introduction for ".Lord Goderich and his friend Mr Cremer. The former is the son of the Earl de Grey & the latter is his Lordships Secretary." 2pp. on a bifolium sent from Washington 6 May 1871. With an accompanying autograph envelope; and two autograph letters from Charles Sumner one to Mrs Fish regarding a book of Froissart illustrations and another in the third person to Earl de Grey accepting an invitation 4 pages 7 May 1866 and 13 March no date; with autograph letter signed "Schulyer Colfax" to Hamilton Fish reporting he has not yet received his copies of the Lincoln Memorial on Vice President's Chamber notepaper one page on a bifolium Washington 9 July 1870; with signature of J. G. Blaine Speaker dated 19 April 1871 one page three items affixed to an album leaf the others loose. An autograph letter signed "de Grey" to Cremer written on the voyage back to England after the signing of the Treaty sorry to leave Washington and regretting that the Senate would not ratify the Treaty before he left talking of the Free Trade movement in the US and asking him to report back on the reaction to the treaty in Canada 8pp. creased remains of guard 31 May 1871; with a manuscript fragment outlining two points of the treaty with regards to inshore fisheries one page torn from a larger sheet. In very good to near fine condition. Provenance: The Rev. Frederic Daustini Cremer 1848-1927; thence by descent to the present owner. The 1871 Treaty of Washington augmented permanent peaceful relations between the United States and Canada and the United States and Britain by settling various disputes lingering from the civil war navigation and fishing rights and defining the rules for neutral governments during times of war thereby establishing a precedent for future international arbitration. unknown

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Bush-Brown, Henry Kirke [Ulysses S Grant]Biblio.com

Ulysses S. Grant Bronze Bust.

1885réf. 125381New York: Henry-Bonnard Bronze Co. c. 1885. Attractive bronze bust of of Ulysses S. Grant as General of the Army by famed American sculptor Henry Kirke Bush-Brown. The adopted nephew of sculptor Henry Kirke Brown Henry Kirke Bush-Brown was revered for his accurate realist sculptures illustrating American history. He produced three equestrian bronze sculptures erected at the Gettysburg battlefield depicting General George Mead the victor at Gettysburg General John F. Reynolds killed in action July 1 1863 and General John Sedgwick the senior most Union casualty of the American Civil War. In addition Bush-Brown made a bust of Abraham Lincoln dedicated in 1912 as part of the Lincoln Speech Memorial commemorating Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. Mounted on a bronze base the entire piece measures 7.75 inches in height. In fine condition. Following the close of the American Civil War Congress revisited the idea of a superior General rank initially intended for bestowal upon George Washington who held the rank of “General and Commander-in-Chief” which was a grade senior to all American major generals and brigadier generals from the American Revolutionary War but only entitled him to the three-star insignia of an Army lieutenant general. On July 25 1866 Congress enacted legislation authorizing the grade of General of the Army and on that same date the new grade was conferred on Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant as a reward for saving the Union in the American Civil War. The grade was recognized and continued in various acts until the Act of July 15 1870 which contained the requirement that “the offices of general and lieutenant general shall continue until a vacancy shall exist in the same and no longer and when such vacancy shall occur in either of said offices shall become inoperative and shall by virtue of this act from thence forward be held to be repealed.” Henry-Bonnard Bronze Co. unknown

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