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Notes from interviews concerning Ulysses S. Grant, circa 1897

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Scope and Contents

Accounts of interviews with acquaintances and associates of General Grant. Includes incomplete list of interviewees, original questionnaires, statements, corrections, etc. of some of the interviewees. Typed and holograph, partly revised, many with carbon copies. Approximately 425 leaves.

Includes notes and partial transcripts from two interviews with General James Longstreet. One of the Longstreet transcripts, dated March 20, 1897, was corrected by Longstreet himself and then sent back to Garland. Garland wrote a note in the margin of this transcript: "I wrote this at once after our talk and sent it to the General for correction. He returned it in this form. It is a valuable historical document.

Dates

  • Creation: circa 1897

Creator

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Extent

From the Collection: 78 Linear Feet (143 boxes)

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

General

Hamlin Garland checklist no. 543

Repository Details

Part of the USC Libraries Special Collections Repository

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