. The great American book of biography . s closing in around him, he had finished his Memoirs, under-taken that his debts might be paid and his loved ones provided for. Now, whenall was over, and the memory of all the nation owed him came back, a unitedpeople gathered to render at his grave their tributes of love and gratitude. When, in 1866, the bill to revive the grade of General of the Army ofthe United States was before the House of Representatives, Grants friend,Henry C. Deming spoke these true and fitting words :— Time, it is said, devours the proudest human memorial. The impress wehave
. The great American book of biography . s closing in around him, he had finished his Memoirs, under-taken that his debts might be paid and his loved ones provided for. Now, whenall was over, and the memory of all the nation owed him came back, a unitedpeople gathered to render at his grave their tributes of love and gratitude. When, in 1866, the bill to revive the grade of General of the Army ofthe United States was before the House of Representatives, Grants friend,Henry C. Deming spoke these true and fitting words :— Time, it is said, devours the proudest human memorial. The impress wehave made as a nation may be obliterated ; our grandest achievements, eventhose which we now fondly deem eternal, those which embellish the walls of thathistoric rotunda, may all drop from the memory of man Yet we shall not allperish. You may rest assured that ^/irce Avicrica7i names will survive oblivion,and soar together immortal : the name of him who founded, the name of himwho disenthralled, with the name of him who saved the AN ...ulAN FARM HOUSE. THE STORY OF THE CIVIL WAR,
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