. Ridpath's history of the world : being an account of the principal events in the career of the human race from the beginnings of civilization to the present time, comprising the development of social instititions and the story of all nations . Union, wasbegun by General AVilliam T. Sherman, who,in 1875, published his Memoirs, narrating thestory of that part of the war in which he hadbeen a leader. This was not indeed the firstof the publications on the subject. As earlyas 1870, Alexander H. Stephens, late Vice-President of the Confederacy, had completedhis two volumes entitled the War Betwee
. Ridpath's history of the world : being an account of the principal events in the career of the human race from the beginnings of civilization to the present time, comprising the development of social instititions and the story of all nations . Union, wasbegun by General AVilliam T. Sherman, who,in 1875, published his Memoirs, narrating thestory of that part of the war in which he hadbeen a leader. This was not indeed the firstof the publications on the subject. As earlyas 1870, Alexander H. Stephens, late Vice-President of the Confederacy, had completedhis two volumes entitled the War Between the 224 UNIVERSAL HISTORY.—THE MODERN WORLD. States. lu 1884, General Grant began thepublication in the Century Magazine of a seriesof war articles which attracted universal atten-tion, and which led to the preparation andissuance of his Memoirs in 1885-6. Similarcontributions by many other eminent com-manders of the Union and Confederate Armiesfollowed in succession, until a large, able, andimpartial literature was left on record for theinstruction of after times. The interest in the above publications wasgreatly heightened by the death, within alimited period, of a large number of the greatUnion Generals who had led their armies to. WINFIELD S. HANCOCK. victory in the War of the Rebellion. It wasin the early summer of tlie year 1885 that theattention of the people was called away frompublic affairs by the announcement that theveteran General, Ulysses S. Grant, had beenstricken with a fatal malady, that his dayswould be few among the living. The hero ofVicksburg and Appomattox sank under theravages of a malignant cancer which hadfixed itself in his throat, and on the 23d ofJuly he died quietly at a summer cottage onMount McGregor, New York. For somemonths the silent hero, who had commandedthe combined armies of the United States, hadbeen engaged in the pathetic work of bring- ing to completion his two volumes of Memoirs,from the sale of which—such is the gratitudeof Repu
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