. The Century book of famous Americans : the story of a young people's pilgrimage to historic homes . andpeople as the greatest of Americansoldiers. Honored by his country-men, respected by the world, therewas but one other thing he desired-to leave his children a heritage equalto his fame. For their sake he went into business. The old story of hisyouth was repeated — failure. But it was failure through the rascality of aman who traded upon the name, the honor, and the reputation of the greatgeneral who trusted him ; and when the crash came, the name, the honor,the reputation of the great gene
. The Century book of famous Americans : the story of a young people's pilgrimage to historic homes . andpeople as the greatest of Americansoldiers. Honored by his country-men, respected by the world, therewas but one other thing he desired-to leave his children a heritage equalto his fame. For their sake he went into business. The old story of hisyouth was repeated — failure. But it was failure through the rascality of aman who traded upon the name, the honor, and the reputation of the greatgeneral who trusted him ; and when the crash came, the name, the honor,the reputation of the great general, were trailed in the dust. He was stripped oi everything. He was almost penniless. Defeatseemed destruction. But even as in war, his darkest moment was but theentrance to action. He set to work to retrieve himself, to save his creditand his name. He became the annalist of the events that had made himgreat. He determined to tell the story of his campaigns, and his success isscarcely exceeded in the history of literature. But almost before pen touched paper a fell disease struck him down. He. GENERAL GRANTS NEW YORK 3 East Sixty-sixth street. BESIDE THE MISSISSIPPI 19! was threatened with a speedy and painful death. Then his wonderful willcame into play : he would not surrender; he would fight disease and deathuntil he had finished the work he had set himself to do. Stubbornly, tena-ciously, he clung to his purpose. At times he seemed close to defeat, but,rallying, he fell to the work again. When we were in New York I showedyou the Sixty-sixth street house where that fearful fight was fought. Thebattle shifted to a mountain-top near Saratoga. There, on Mount McGregor,he rallied, there he sank, there again he held death at bay, until at last heconquered. The memoirs were completed; the task he had set for himselfwas done. Then he laid down his pen — the pen that, indeed, had beenmightier than the sword ; he said, I am ready, and died — a greater herothan ever he
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