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by William B. Hesseltine. 484 pgs.

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Contributors:

   William B. Hesseltine

Publisher:

   Dodd, Mead

Place of Publication:

  New York  

Publication Year:

  1935
Subjects:   Grant, Ulysses S--(Ulysses Simpson),--1822-1885, United States--Politics And Government--1869-1877
Table of contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS
I. FORTY YEARS OF FAILURE Personality--Parentage--Early life--Appointment to West Point-- Life at West Point--Army life--Mexican War--Marriage--Pacific coast--Resignation from army--Seven lean years--Outbreak of war. 1
II. SUCCESS In Springfield--First command--At Cairo--Belmont--Forts Henry and Donelson--Shiloh--Grant and Sherman--Stories of drunkenness --Vicksburg--Chattanooga--Lieutenant General--Wilderness to Petersburg--Meade and Buffer--Appomattox. 19
III. THE STRATEGY OF PEACE Problems of reconstruction--Assassination of Lincoln--Sherman-- Johnson convention--Mexican problem--Lee's parole--Grant and Johnson--Johnson and the Radicals--Grant's triumphal tours-- Southern conventions--Grant's Southern trip--Receptions--Johnson and Congress--Bidding for Grant--General of the army. 48
IV. AN EAR TO THE GROUND Political alignments--"Swing around the circle"--Grant's reticence --Sherman and the Mexican mission--Leans to Radicals--Radical Reconstruction in the South--Sheridan--Stanton's dismissal--Grant in War Department. 70
V. JOINING THE RADICAL CHURCH The Grant movement--Case of Sheridan--Grant in Cabinet--Radicals and bondholders--Cooper Institute nomination--Stanton returns to War office--Johnson-Grant quarrel. 89
VI. GRANT ACTS, SEYMOUR TALKS, BLAIR BLOWS Sherman--Impeachment--Aspirations of Chase and Butler--Soldiers and Sailors convention--Republican convention--Formal notification-Democratic candidates and convention--Campaign of 1868 -- Southern atrocities--Election. 112
VII. RUMORS OF REFORM President-elect--Butler and Grant--Cabinet aspirants--Selecting the cabinet--Sale of Washington House--Inauguration. 132
VIII. THE FIRST CLASH Cabinet--Stewart--Army appointments--Tenure of office act--Repeal--Tactical errors. 145
IX. "POLICY ENOUGH FOR THE PRESENT" Public credit act-- constitution--Concept of office--Cabinet activities-- claims---Motley--Treasury department. 157
X. MIDSUMMER FANTASY Boutwell's bonds--Fisk and Gould--Gould's schemes--Gould and Corbin--Cuban problems--Death of Rawlins--Gould and Grant-- Mrs. Grant--A message to Grant--Black Friday--The Government sells gold--Investigation. 169
XI. THE END OF RECONSTRUCTION Virginia election--Grant and Lee--Georgia--Texas--Mississippi-- Greeley and the South--Congress and the South 180
XII. TARNISHED HALO Tactics in politics--First annual message--Boutwell's report--Tariff Finances--Butler's bids for support Heat's rejection--Hepburn vs. Griswold--Grant packs the court--Expansionist dreams--Seward and Santo Domingo Fabens and Cazneau--Fabens and Grant Babcock's treaty--Grant and Sumner--Sumner opposes--Grant and the treaty. 190
XIII. POLITICAL TACTICS Missouri politics--Butler in Massachusetts--Dismissal of Hoar-- New York Custom House--Dismissal of Motley--Popular opinion Finances--Cox's resignation--Civil Service agitation--Congressional elections. 207
XIV. SMOKE SCREEN Liberal Republicans in Missouri--Political problems--English mission --Annual message--Santo Domingo and Sumner--Santo Domingo commissioners--Negotiations with England--Sir John Rose Schenck --Sumner's memorandum--British commissioners appointed--Sumner's demotion. 220
XV. HYDRA HEAD Reduction of the debt--Funding the five-twenties--Southern disorders--Revenue reformers--Ku Klux bill--Hayes on the outlook-- South Carolina proclamation--Santo Domingo and Sumner--Grant's Santo Domingo message--Treaty of Washington. 238
XVI. POLITICAL FAGOTS Civil Service--Rumors and criticisms--Greeley's objections--Democratic manĵuvers--Vallandigham's "New Departure"--Ku Klux proclamation--Grant and the party--Third annual message--Williams appointed--Congressional restlessness--Civil Service report--The "General order" scandal--French arms scandal--Sumner's One Term Amendment--Tariff reform--Civil Service rules adopted. 252
XVII. THE ELECTION OF 1872 Pre-convention campaign--Liberal Republican Convention--Greeley --Republican convention--Campaign finances-- campaign-Straight-out Democrats--September and October states--Campaign methods--Election. 269
XVIII. LIFE IN THE WHITE HOUSE A transition age--Washington society--Julia Grant--The Grant family circle--Jesse and Nellie--Nellie's wedding--Daily routine Grant's habits--Drinking--Loyalty to friends--Love of horses--Religious activities--Summers at Long Branch. 291
XIX. PUBLIC CONFIDENCE Beginning the second term--Annual message--Credit Mobilier-- Resumption--The salary grab--Inauguration--Financial problems-- Southern corruption--Grangers--Shepherd rebuilds Washington--Butler in Massachusetts---Declining confidence--Failure of Jay Cooke. 308
XX. INFLATION OR RESUMPTION? Bankers and the government--The legal tender "reserve"--Grant's financial ideas--Annual message--Inflationists in Congress--Inflation bill--Grants veto--Financial legislation--Political significance of the veto--Bristow in the Treasury--Fall elections--Resumption act of 1875. 327
XXI. WHITE SUPREMACY Corruption in Louisiana--Warmoth and Casey--The election of 1872 --Congressional investigations--Troubles in Arkansas--New troubles in Louisiana--Grant's attitude--Sheridan in New Orleans--Popular indignation in the North--Grant's message--Political significance --Committee report--Wheeler compromise-- settlement-- Force bill--Civil Rights act. 341
XXII. POLITICS OF DEPRESSION Civil Service commission--Chief Justiceship--Sanborn contracts-- Simmon's appointment--Civil Service--Marshall Jewell--Washington scandals--Third term question--Southern violence--Elections of 1874 --Decline of political idealism--Decline of Grant's popularity--Williams resigns. 359
XXIII. A REFORMER IN THE CABINET Presidential aspirants--Rise of Bristow--Delano--Third term rumors --The Whiskey ring--Methods--Arrest of the distillers--McDonald and the St. Louis ring--Babcock--Grant's attitude--Grant and McDonald --Grant and Babcock--St. Louis trials--Grant's deposition--Babcock dismissed--Bristow and Grant. 375
XXIV. POLITICAL FREE-FOR-ALL Elections of 1875--Grant on education--Annual message, 1875-- Congressional legislation--Political investigations--Belknap scandal-- Schenck's Emma mine--Blaine's hopes--Morton--Mulligan letters-- Bristow's candidacy--Radical reformers--Other candidates. 389
XXV. A DISTURBED EXIT Republican convention--Democrats nominate Tilden--Grant and Hayes--Grant's aid to the Republicans--Southern troubles--The campaign--Disputed election--Counting the votes in and Louisiana--Grants last message--Grant and the Electoral Count Act --Democrats desert Tilden--Wamley Hotel agreement--Last days in White House--Hayes inaugurated. 405
XXVI. A POLITICAL RESURRECTION Grant and the Hayes administration--Trip around the world-- Political significance--Grant's return--The Grant boom--Preconvention maneuvers--Republican convention of 1880 --Grant in the campaign-Mentor meeting--Grant and Garfield. 424
XXVII. PEACE Looking for employment--Mexican interests--Grant and Ward, bankers--Bankruptcy--Articles for Century Company--Cancer--The Personal Memoirs--Illness--Death. 444
BIBLIOGRAPHY 453
INDEX 461
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