IN MEMORIAM GENERAL U. S. GRANT; PROCEEDINGS...AUGUST 8TH, 1885

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Fredonia N.Y.:: `Censor' [newspaper job shop],, 1885. In wrappers; covers lightly stained; contents clean.. covers. Lt.-Gen. Grant (1822-85) accepted Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox; prohibited Union troops to show celebration; allowed Confederate officers to keep their horses for Spring plowing as well as their side-arms; served 2 terms as U.S. President; feted on extended world tour; swindled into poverty through thievery of a trusted investment partner; & willed himself to stay alive--despite terminal throat cancer--to finish writing his autobiography (published by Mark Twain, it earned over $400,000 for Grant's family, & restored their solvency).