U.S. Grant

Engraved for Headlers Plustrated lofe & Irwels of General Grant from a Photograph by Brady

THE

LIFE AND TRAVELS

OF

GENERAL GRANT.

This work is designed to furnish a complete account of the life and
remarkable public career of General Grant, and to take the reader with
him in his celebrated tour around the world. To look in upon the
splendors of royal courts to which he was everywhere so
cordially welcomed-to view at leisure the greatest won-
ders and richest beauties of foreign lands-to witness

the high honors paid to this representative of the
United States of America, etc., etc., etc., etc.

BY

HON. J T HEADLEY,
JT

""Sherman

Author of "Napoleon and his Marshals," "Washington and his Generals,'
and his Campaigns,” “Farragut and our Naval Commanders,” “Sacred
Mountains," "Achievements of Sanley," etc., etc.

PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED.

PUBLISHED BY

HUBBARD BROS., PHILADELPHIA, PA.; SPRINGFIELD, MASS.;
CHICAGO, ILL.; CINCINNATI, OHIO: THOMAS PROTHERO, EMPORIA,
KANSAS: A. L. BANCROFT & CO., SAN FRANCISCO,
CAL.: W. H. THOMPSON & CO., BOSTON, MASS.

1879.

COPYRIGHTED,
ACCORDING TO ACT OF CONGRESS,

1879.

PRESS OF FRANKLIN PRINTING HOUSE,

80-38 HUDSON ST., PHILA.

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PREFACE.

THE

HE present work has been undertaken in the belief that a great number of General Grant's friends desire to have his life, from his boyhood up to the present time, in a cheap and compact form. The people have a right to be informed of the principal events in the life of a man to whom they are indebted for so much, and whom they elected to be their Chief Magistrate. But this they cannot be unless these events are put in a shape that places them within their reach. The costly work, entitled "Around the World with Grant," got up with so much elegance and taste, was not intended for the great mass of the people, but for the select few who can indulge in such luxuries. Leaving all such works to those who can afford it, the great reading public desire, and are entitled to have, a careful account, and within reasonable limits, of all the things they wish to know about the foremost American of the age. In giving this, I have been compelled, in a part of the work, to use, to a certain extent, the letters of the Herald's correspondent. The first portion, however, is taken up with Grant's remarkable career as a military man and statesman, to which he only incidentally alludes. He, moreover, did not accompany him in his European travels till the better part of them was finished; hence, I am indebted for my material for that portion to foreign newspapers, and letter-writers, and my cwn notes of travel in places which he visited, not to this correspondent.

In the Orient, however, I am indebted to those letters for nearly everything relating to General Grant personally; but his tour was such a hasty one, that, under any circumstances, he could get only a partial glimpse of important places, and could but omit many objects that give to them their attraction; but this view was restricted still more, vii

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greatly to his regret and that of his friends, by so much of that limited time being taken up with public receptions, and dinners, and fetes, which he was compelled in courtesy to attend. Hence, the correspondent has felt it to be his duty to fill up what was lacking in personal observation, by resorting to the descriptions of other travelers, in order that the reader may get an intelligent idea of those places which he visited.

This was eminently proper and right, and I have taken the same liberty, and used freely the information I have collected from other travelers, and from the notes of friends.

Thus it will be seen that we occupy entirely different fields in part, and where we work the same, do it in a different manner. There is room and demand for both works, for, as we said, they appeal to an entirely different class of purchasers, and, in a great measure, to a different class of readers.

J. T. HEADLEY.