[pg. 25] Bruce Catton, GRANT TAKES COMMAND. (Boston and Toronto: Little Brown and Company, 1969. Pp. 556. $10.00)

reviewed by John A. Carpenter

Fordham University

[pg. 17] REMINISCENCES OF GENERAL FREDERICK DENT GRANT *** General Frederick Dent Grant always regretted that he was unable to find time In his busy life to write a biography of his father. As the oldest of the four children of Ulysses S. Grant, born in 1850, Frederick Grant had memories stretching back farther than those of the other children, and was the only child to have been with his father in the field during the Civil War.

[pg. 11] GRANT’S FIRST NEWSPAPER CONTROVERSY *** “You have probably seen dearest Julia a publication reflecting upon the officers of the 4th Inf.y while crossing the Isthmus…. It is stated that even Capt. Grant ran off, and left the men to take care of themselves.” In reporting this to his wife from Oregon Territory in 1852, Ulysses S.

By his Wife’s Sister:

EMMA DENT CASEYOf course, we had the other pleasures of country life at that time, too. There were picnics and dances, but naturally I do not remember much of these. However, I do recall very well the day when Julia and the Lieutenant and a party of their friends went to a camp meeting and were caught in a terrible thunderstorm that overtook them on their way home.