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Volume 20 is the first in this acclaimed series to cover the months when Ulysses S. Grant held no military commission. As president, however, Grant's significance grew rather than diminished. His leadership and decisions touched directly or indirectly most people in the United States and many more around the globe.

Grant spoke sincerely when he said that I have done all I could to advance the best interests of the citizens of our country, without regard to color, and I shall endeavor to do in the future what I have done in the past. He urged adoption of the Fifteenth Amendment and rejoiced in its ratification, expressing his belief that it was the realization of the Declaration of Independence. Grant acknowledged that government had treated Indians badly in the past. In the short run, he recommitted his administration to the experiment of employing Quakers and humanitarians as Indian advisers and agents, trusting in eventual great success. In the long run, however, Grant thought placing Indians on large reservations and encouraging them to take their lands in severalty and to set up territorial governments for their own protection the best course.

In foreign affairs, Grant became fixed on the annexation of Santo Domingo, gave this issue an inordinate degree of attention, and squandered political capital in confrontations with Congress. Senate foreign affairs committee chairman Charles Sumner emerged as the villain preventing Grant from achieving his desire, and Grant displayed his animosity toward the Massachusetts senator in private as well as in the very public removal of Sumner's friend John L. Motley as minister to England. Developments such as growing tensions among European powers, Spanish-Cuban relations, and the Alabama Claims negotiations received relatively little attention. Grant, in fact, admitted shortly after the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War, I had no idea that such an event was even threatening.


About the Author:

John Y.Simon is a professor of history at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. He has written or edited, in addition to the published volumes of the Grant Papers, four books, among which is The Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant.

William M. Ferraro is assistant editor of the Grant Papers. He is assistant editor of volumes 1and 2 of The Salmon P. Chase Papers.

J. Thomas Murphy is assistant editor of the Grant Papers.

Sue E. Dotson is textual editor of the Grant Papers.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780809319657
  • Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Southern Illinois University Press
  • Height: 253 mm
  • No of Pages: 552
  • Series Title: U S Grant Papers
  • Sub Title: November 1, 1869 - October 31, 1870 Volume 20
  • Width: 178 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0809319659
  • Publisher Date: 09 Dec 1994
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 46 mm
  • Weight: 1323 gr


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