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Grant's Farewell Message

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Parent Issue
Day
29
Month
May
Year
1885
Copyright
Public Domain
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A favowell message from (jen. Grant to the soldier lio Fought ander hls comnumd was dictated by hlm recently to Lleut. J. llolbrook, of (i. A. lt. Pos;, Nu" 8, of Boston, who in c"!iii;uiv with scveral other gentlemen wero calliniï up'jn the general. Just béfore the gentlemen took t !;cir departure (on. Grant arose, aml shaking hands wlth thcm, sent a message to the boys in blue to be delivered to t hem at the animal encampment in Portlund, Me., In June. He Ba ld: '-Teil the boys tuat thev probably wlll ncver look into iny fac? agáln, nor bear my volee, bat they are engraved on niv beavt and I love them as tpy (hililit:i. Wbattbegood Lord has spured me lor is iiKnv thaii 1 can teil, but lt is, perhaps, tu liihsii iip iny book, whlcb I Bball leave to the boys la blue, and in which they ean not only gee me, but follow me lu the acts wUich tliey helped. me."

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Ann Arbor Democrat