Excerpt from General Grant's Letters to a Friend, 1861-1880 All but three of the letters contained in this colleetion are of a strietly personal charaeter, the exceptions being Grant's official communi cations of January 23, 1862, November'13, 1863, and July 19, 1864, addressed to Mr. Washburne, Secretary Stanton, and President Lincoln. These were found among the Gen eral's two score and seven private letters. A por tion of these, relating to the war, appeared in the Life of Grant (great Commanders Series), while some of the others were published in the numbers of the North American Review, for July and August, 1897. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.