American diplomat, military officer, author, and one of Ulysses S. Grant’s closest aides and later fiercest critics.
Simply amazing four-page autograph letter signed “Adam Badeau”, absolutely filing every space on all four pages, September 14, 1872, “Consular-General of the United States of America” stationery, London, addressed “To the President / Dear General”. Too much content to include the full letter but several snippets include:
“The great victories in Maine and Vermont seem to me to decide the result in November…”
“The American people are determined not to lose what was won by the war, and that they have not lost their regard for you, whose fame and reputation are as much the country’s as they are your own.”
“The award at Geneva is a great triumph for us” (just a day earlier, it was determined that Great Britain owed the US $15.5 million for damages caused by British-built Confederate ships during the Civil War)
“Dear General, never forget nor forgive those who have wavered now. I would pardon even an enemy quicker than these time-servers.”
Overflowing letter in the weeks before Grant overwhelmingly won reelection over Horace Greeley.
American diplomat, military officer, author, and one of Ulysses S. Grant’s closest aides and later fiercest critics.
Simply amazing four-page autograph letter signed “Adam Badeau”, absolutely filing every space on all four pages, September 14, 1872, “Consular-General of the United States of America” stationery, London, addressed “To the President / Dear General”. Too much content to include the full letter but several snippets include:
“The great victories in Maine and Vermont seem to me to decide the result in November…”
“The American people are determined not to lose what was won by the war, and that they have not lost their regard for you, whose fame and reputation are as much the country’s as they are your own.”
“The award at Geneva is a great triumph for us” (just a day earlier, it was determined that Great Britain owed the US $15.5 million for damages caused by British-built Confederate ships during the Civil War)
“Dear General, never forget nor forgive those who have wavered now. I would pardon even an enemy quicker than these time-servers.”
Overflowing letter in the weeks before Grant overwhelmingly won reelection over Horace Greeley.
