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Title: The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959 Lanier, Robert S. (Robert Sampson), 1880-
Subjects: War photography
Publisher: New York : Review of Reviews Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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U. S. Grant, Jr., THESECOND SON Mrs. ElizabethC. Grant, F. D. GRANT THIRD SON OFF. D. GRANT DAUGHTER OF F. D. GRANT JESSE R. GRANT JESSE R. QRANT THE TRAGEDY AT MOUNT McGREGOR—GRANT AND HIS FAMILY, JCLY 19, 1885 On July 16th, three days hefore this photograph was taken, the general was removed to a summer cottage on Mount McGregor, nearSaratoga Springs. Exactly a week later, July 23, 1885, he breathed his last amid the family here assembled. No period of Ulysses S.Grants life was more heroic than its closing months. He had remained in excellent health up to Christmas of 18S3. In the summer of1884 he was annoyed by unpleasant sensations in his throat. He paid little attention to the symptoms until autumn. A physician,calling one day in October, made an examination that alarmed him. He advised that a specialist be called at once. Cancer of thethroat had set in. The annoying sensations at length became painful, and in December the disease had so far advanced that to drinkeven liquid fo

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