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Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885

 Person

Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:

Charles R. Allen diary collection

 Collection
Identifier: USGPL-CRA
Scope and Content Note The Charles R. Allen Diary collection contains a diary transcribed by Charles R. Allen in 1902 from his orginial 1861-1864 Civil War diaries. In this volume, Allen has transcribed the roginial diaries but also added notes and essays on the coming of the Civil War, commentary on the events of the War, and notes about life after the War. The collection also contains numerous copies of Allen's original poems, many written about his wartime experiences. Finally, this collection contains the...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1861 - 1931

Orville E. Babcock collection

 Collection
Identifier: USGPL-OEB
Scope and Content Note The Orville E. Babcock collections contain a number of diaries and personal effects of Grant's former aide-de-camp. Babcock’s diaries begin in 1863 and continue into 1869 (though missing are the crucial years when he joined General Grant's staff). Babcock records his experiences in Kentucky, Ohio, Washington, DC, Vicksburg, Nashville, Knoxville, and Chattanooga, before be summoned to Virginia by General Grant. They also contain information about his post-war experiences in Washington as...
Dates: 1863 - 1884

Jim Bultema Video Collection

 Collection
Identifier: USGPL-JB
Scope and Content Note The Jim Bultema Video Collection encompasses three boxes containing a total of forty-six VHS tapes converted to DVDs. Two tapes are currently being converted to DVDs and are not located within the collection at this time. At the present time, boxes 1 and 2 have 14 tapes with accompanying DVDs and Box 3 contains 16 tapes with accompanying DVDs. The collection contains partial edited footage of the proposed documentary, but the majority remains in raw footage form. Two history graduate...
Dates: 1983 - 1985; Majority of material found in 1985 - 1985

Noble E. Dawson papers

 Collection
Identifier: USGPL-NED
Scope and Content Note The Noble E. Dawson papers contains correspondence, transcripts, scrapbooks, ephemera, and photographs related to Dawson's position and a transcriber and stenographer for Ulysses S. Grant as Grant was writing his Personal Memoirs. The collection contains correspondence with many members of the Grant family, including Fred Grant, Ulysses S. Grant, Jr., Nellie Grant, and Jesse Grant. It also includes correspondence with Robert Todd Lincoln, sculptor Karl Gerhardt, General Grenville Dodge, and...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1860 - 1920

Chauncey I. Filley papers

 Collection
Identifier: USGPL-CIF
Scope and Content Note This collection contains the correspondence, receipts, newspaper articles, and general records of Chauncey Ives Filley and other prominent Missouri Republicans from 1879 to 1892. More specifically, the collection is primarily composed of the correspondence between Chauncey I. Filley and Republican party members who tried to whip up support for a third presidential term for Ulysses S. Grant. The correspondence also contains records of general Republican Party business. Predominantly,...
Dates: 1879 - 1891

Chapman Grant papers

 Collection
Identifier: USGPL-CG
Scope and Content Note This collection contains photographs, correspondence, clippings, and ephemera from scrapbooks made by Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant, Jesse R. Grant, Chapman Grant, and their friends and family. This collection also includes the twenty-three family scrapbooks, with items ranging from the second half of the nineteenth century to the 1970s. Items of interest include military documents, memoranda, and correspondence from Chapman Grant’s service in the United States Army and his professional...
Dates: 1859 - 1977; Majority of material found within 1885 - 1940

Grant Family collection

 Collection
Identifier: USGPL-Fam
Scope and Content Note This collection contains the correspondence, ephemera, photoalbums, and family Bible of various members of the Grant family and extended friends and acquaintances. It includes correspondence from Jesse Root Grant, father of President Ulysess S. Grant, Ulysses S. Grant, Jr., Ulysses S. Grant III, his wife Edith Root Grant, her father Secretary of State Elihu Root, General Horace Porter, W. O. Stoddard, George Sharpe, and a variety of other correspondents.This collection also...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1864 - 1926

Frederick Dent Grant and Ida Honore Grant papers

 Collection
Identifier: USGPL-FDGIHG
Scope and Content Note The Frederick Dent Grant (FDG) and Ida Honore Grant (IHG) papers is made up of correspondence, speeches, pamphlets, scrapbooks, poems, news clippings, and other items that documents the lives of General Frederick Grant and his wife Ida Honore Grant. The correspondence in this collection comes from a variety of sources including correspondence related to Fred and Ida's time in Austria as Fred served as Minister to Austria-Hungary. it also includes correspondence from family and friends...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1853 - 1923

Ulysses S. Grant and Julia Dent Grant papers

 Collection
Identifier: USGPL-USGJDG
Scope and Content Note This collection consists of thirteen boxes of correspondence, ephemera, photographs, and scrapbooks related to Ulysses S. Grant, Julia Dent Grant, their acquaintances, and family members. It is arranged in three series: Correspondence and Ephemera; Photographs, and Scrapbooks. The first two series have additional Sub-Series that break the material down into specific types which are then arranged either chronologically or alphabetically by topic.Correspondents in this collection...
Dates: 1822 - 2011

Lloyd Lewis and Bruce Catton research notes collection

 Collection
Identifier: USGPL-LLBC
Scope and Content Note This collection contains the research notes of Lloyd Lewis and Bruce Catton, biographers of Ulysses S. Grant and historians of te Civil War era. Subjects covered include Ulysses S. Grant, Abraham Lincoln, William T. Sherman, the Mexican-American War, the American Civil War, Reconstruction, the Presidency, West Point, Grant's World Tour. Types of material found in this collection include: hand-written and typed research notes, correspondence, including originals dating back to the 1850s and...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1840 - 1967

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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. 9
General Grant National Memorial (New York, N.Y.) 4
United States--Foreign relations--1865-1898 3
Mexican War, 1846-1848. 2
Railroads--Mexico 2