Grant’s Death, the Grand Army Circular Order
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Black-bordered Printed Document Signed in print, “A. C. Monroe / Assistant Adjutant General.”, 2 pages, 5.5” x 8.5”, front and verso on two conjoined sheets. Professional repairs on the verso. Fine Condition.
Ulysses S. Grant died “on the morning of the 23d inst., surrounded by his family and friends” on the slopes of Mount McGregor, in his friend John Drexel’s Adirondack cottage, where he lived for the six weeks prior to his death.
A.C. Monroe beautifully expressed the grief of Grant’s former troops as, “Who, my comrades can more fully realize and measure the loss we as an organization and a people have sustained in the death of an honored and beloved commander than those who followed where he led, and who stood with him in those terrible years of strife and suffering, when the fate of the nation and the freedom and happiness of the oppressed hung trembling in the balance, which finally culminating at Appomattox, has for ever made the name of Ulysses S. Grant honored and revered by the patriotic and liberty-loving people the wide world over.”
The Grand Army of the Republic was a fraternal organization of Union Civil War veterans that wielded considerable political influence.
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