Hero of Fort Donelson! Vicksburg! Chattanooga! Petersburg! With a full history of his Life, Campaigns, and Battles, and PHILADELPHIA: T. B. PETERSON & BROTHERS, E672 Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1865, by T. B. PETERSON & BROTHERS, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, in and for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. NO VIMU GIFT OF LIBRARY CONTENTS. PAGE Birth of Lieutenant-General Grant, and his ancestors.... 23 His early youth and education-Interesting anecdotes... 24 He enters West Point-His term at that Institution..... He graduates on June 13th, 1843 ... He enters the Army and is ordered to Missouri-He is His Marriage—He is ordered to the Pacific-His resigna- Is appointed Colonel, and is ordered to Missouri-He is He issues a Proclamation to the citizens of Paducah ...... General McClernand's Official Report-General Grant's General Grant assumes command of the District of Cairo, General Grant at Fort Henry-A testimonial of regard Detailed account of the Battle, by an eye-witness of it.. 60 General Grant's Official Report of the Battle of Pittsburg Correspondence between Generals Beauregard and Grant. 66 Important Reconnoissances in the direction of Corinth, General Grant villified-An able Defence is made of him in the House of Representatives, at Washington, by the Hon. E. B. Washburne, of Illinois, on May 2d, 1862.. Skirmishing before Corinth-The evacuation of that Important Orders issued at Memphis-General Grant as- sumes command of the Department of West Tennessee The Battle of Iuka-General Grant's Official Report of it. .... General Grant congratulates the Armies of the West for 88 |