Around the World With General Grant. E-book. Formato PDF John Russell Young   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

Gentlemen: General Ulysses S. Grant, the late President of the United States, sailed from Philadelphia on the 17th inst, for Liverpool. The route and extent of his travels, as well as the duration Of' his sojourn abroad, were alike undetermined at the time of his departure, the object of his journey being to secure a few months of rest and recreation after sixteen years of unremitting and devoted labor in the military and civil service of his country.

Around the World With General Grant: A Narrative of the Visit of General U. S. Grant. E-book. Formato PDF John Russell Young   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

Grant in his recent travels. That suggestion was made to me during the prog ress of our journey. It was my intention to have completed this narrative on my return to the United States. The fact, however, that various publishing concerns in this country — half a dozen, I should think — began at once, upon learning of the intention of the American News Company to print this book, to issue rival editions, based upon letters and dispatches of mine printed in the New York Herald, compelled my own publishers to print the early parts of the first volume before my return. The compilation and arrangement of seven of the chapters in the first volume devolved, under the circumstances, upon others, to whom I desire to express my thanks. I refer to Chapters XII., XIII., XIV., XVI., XVII., XVIII., and XXII. The substance of these chapters was embraced in the correspondence to the Herald — the arrangement of the book is that of Mr. C. R. Parsons. With this Slight exception, the work, as it now goes to the reader, is entirely my own.

Memoirs of John R. Young, Utah Pioneer, 1847. E-book. Formato PDF John R. Young   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

His words thrilled me like fire; and from that hour I looked forward to the day when I should be a mission ary.