U.S.G FIRST IN WAR FIRST IN PEACE AND FIRST IN THE HEARTS OF HIS COUNTRYMEN
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1868, by
William T. Adams,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.
Electrotyped at the Boston Stereotype Foundry,
No. 19 Spring Lane.
to
The Illustrious Soldier,
GENERAL ULYSSES S. GRANT,
President of The United States from March 4, 1869,
THE ONLY MAN
WHO HAD THE MENTAL POWER, THE MORAL FORCE, THE MILITARY GENIUS TO SUPPRESS
THE GREAT REBELLION,
THE MIGHTIEST THE WORLD EVER SAW;
THE MAN WHOM,
FIRST IN WAR,
AND
FIRST IN THE HEARTS OF HIS COUNTRYMEN,
THE NATION WILL SOON ACKNOWLEDGE TO BE
FIRST IN PEACE,
This Volume
IS ADMIRINGLY AND ENTHUSIASTICALLY
DEDICATED.