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Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant

By: Ulysses S. Grant

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant by U. S. Grant, the Pennsylvani... ...it. The event is an important one for me, for good or evil; I hope for the former. In preparing these volumes for the public, I have entered upon the ... ...hools of the village, except during the winters of 1836-7 and 1838- 9. The former period was spent in Maysville, Kentucky, at- tending the school of R... ... out bright scholars from his school, many of whom have filled conspicuous places in the service of their States. T wo of my contemporaries there —who... ...of the continent, Phila- delphia and New York. This was enough. When these places were visited I would have been glad to have had a steamboat or railr... ... been driven out long before I left. Benjamin was from Indiana, still less populated, where the wolf yet roamed over the prairies. He understood the n... ...EY— STORMING OF CHAPULTEPEC—SAN COSME—EVACUATION OF THE CITY— HALLS OF THE MONTEZUMAS THE ROUTE FOLLOWED by the army from Puebla to the City of Mexico... ...tions, etc. This is the building generally designated as the “Halls of the Montezumas.” 85 U. S. Grant CHAPTER XII PROMOTION TO FIRST LIEUTENANT— CAP...

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