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Dispatches from Grant - Fall 2013 - Volume 1 Issue 3

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MSU. While growing up, he willingly and enthusiastically visited historical David Nolen, Assistant Editor places around the U.S. on family trips, including many Civil War-related sites. Robert (Bob) Karachuk is Visiting Associate Editor at the Ulysses S. Grant We’re on the Web! Presidential Library, working on a scholarly edition of The Personal Memoirs example.microsoft.com of U.S. Grant, a digital edition of Grant Family Papers, and a cumulative index for the thirty-two volumes of The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant. Bob has made a career as a historical editor, most recently as Associate Editor of the Adams Papers at the Massachusetts Historical Society in Boston and earlier as TagAssociate line Editorgoes ofhere. the Documentary History of the Supreme Court at the Supreme Court Historical Society in Washington, D.C. Bob has been appointed the next Education Director of the national Association for Documentary Editing, with responsibility for administering the annual Institute Bob Karachuk, Visiting Associate Editor for the Editing of Historical DocumentsBack sponsored Page by the ADE Story and funded Headlineby the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. This story can fit 175-225 words. here. You may want to refer your readers to any other forms of communication that If your newsletter is folded and mailed, this you’ve created for your organization. story will appear on the back. So, it’s a good idea to make it easy to read at a glance. You can also use this space to remind Grant Library Associatereaders Editor to mark their calendars for a regular A question and answer session is a good way event, such as a breakfast meeting for to quickly capture the attention of readers. On Leave for Fellowshipvendors every third Tuesday of the month, You can either compile questions that you’ve or a biannual charity auction. received since the last edition or you can aron Crawford, Associatesummarize some Editor generic at questionsthe Ulyss thates are S. GrantIf space Presidential is available, this Library, is a good leftplace for to A Dallas in Augustfrequently for a one-year asked abou fellowshipt your organization. at Southern insert Methodist a clip art image University. or some otherWhile graphic. he continues to work onA editorial listing of names projects and titles for ofthe managers Grant in Library, he is also engaged in editorial projects at SMU. your organization is a good way to give your newsletter a personal touch. If your Aaron is collaboratingorganization on the Grant is small, Memoirs you may want with to listBob Karachuk. At SMU, he is also working on a larger projectthe names about of all employees. presidenti al memoirs and working on the Center for Caption describing picture or graphic. Presidential History'sIf Collectiveyou have any pricesMemory of standard Project. products He recently interviewed Grant Association presidentor Frank services, J. you Williams can include about a listing his of thoserole on the Military Commission Review Panel, responsible for reviewing the cases of detainees from Guantanamo Bay. Organization Name

Address Line 1 Address Line 2 Address Line 3 Board Member Profile: Frank Williams Address Line 4 Mailing Address Line 1 Tel: 555 555 5555 Mailing Address Line 2 or over twenty-five years, retired Rhode Island Supreme Court Chief Justice Mobile: 555-555-5555 Mailing Address Line 3 Fax:F 555 Frank 555 5555 J. Williams has led the Ulysses S. Grant Association as its president. E-mail:He was [email protected] asked to take the position by former USGAMailing Executive Address Director Line John 4 Y. Simon and then-president Ralph Newman. Mailing Address Line 5 Prior to becoming a USGA member, then board member, and finally president, WilliamsOrganization has been immersed in Civil War scholarship throughout most of his life. As a child, he was fascinated with Abraham Lincoln and wanted to learn about the president beyond what was taught in school.

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Before graduating from the Boston University School of Law, Williams served five years in the U.S. Military, stationed in Germany and Vietnam, and was awarded several honors, including the Bronze Star, three Air TagMedals, line and goes the Republichere. of Vietnam Silver Star. Williams served as town moderator for Richmond, Rhode Island and Solicitor for several other Rhode Island towns before his 1995 appointment to the state Supreme Court. He was elevated to Chief Justice in 2001. Two years later, President GeorgeBack W. Bush Page appointed StoryWilliams to theHeadline United States Court of Military Commission Review; he served as Chief Judge until retiring in 2009. This story can fit 175-225 words. here. You may want to refer your readers to In addition to his distinguished judicial career, Williams is one of the nation’sany leading other forms Lincoln of communication scholars. that He If your newsletter is folded and mailed, this you’ve created for your organization. has authored or edited over fourteen books,story will contributed appear on the back.chapters So, it’s ato good several others, and lectured on Lincoln throughout the country. Since 1996, Williamsidea to make has it easychaired to read The at a glance.Lincoln Forum,You whichcan also heuse thisfounded space to with remind Harold Holzer and others. In 2000, he was appointed to the Abraham Lincolnreaders Bicentennial to mark their Commission, calendars for a regular A question and answer session is a good way event, such as a breakfast meeting for which planned events to celebrate Lincoln’sto quickly birthday capture the in attention 2009. of readers. vendors every third Tuesday of the month, You can either compile questions that you’ve His private library is one of the nation’s most notable Lincoln collections. Today,or a biannual it includes charity auction. over 10,000 received since the last edition or you can books, 40,000 clippings, and 20,000 othersummarize memorabilia. some generic Aquestions few of that his are favorite If spaceitems is available,are a signed this is a goodcopy place of theto Lincoln-Douglas debates and Lincoln’sfrequently legal do askedcuments about your from organization. his years of practicinginsert a clip artlaw. image or some other graphic.

“From a young age, the idea was to collectA listing everything, of names and ”titles he ofsaid. managers Now, in he and his wife, Virginia “still collect, your organization is a good way to give your but there’s not much else [to collect] except new publications. We have no more room.” newsletter a personal touch. If your The USGA has experienced much changeorganization throughout is small, you Williams’ may want presidency.to list When John Y. Simon died, he the names of all employees. said, “I was thrust into a role I was promised I would never have to confront,” referring to the difficult Caption describing picture or graphic. decision to move the Grant collection fromIf you haveSouthern any prices Il linoisof standard University products – Carbondale to Mississippi State or services, you can include a listing of those University. “This was very traumatic,” he added.

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Address Line 1 Williams,Address Line 2continued Address Line 3 However, in working with John F. Marszalek, Simon’s replacement as Executive Director, and MSU, Wil- Address Line 4 Mailing Address Line 1 liams believes the Grant Association is in a place where it can continue the work of disseminating infor- Tel: 555 555 5555 Mailing Address Line 2 mationMobile: 555-555-5555 about Grant to the public. Mailing Address Line 3 “WeFax: 555 now 555 have5555 the Presidential Library, we’re continuing the Papers [of Ulysses S. Grant] project, working E-mail: [email protected] Mailing Address Line 4 with the University of Virginia Press to digitize the papers, and completing the annotated Memoirs,” he said. Williams added that he also thinks it is importantMailing for the staffAddress to attend Line conferences 5 and publish articles.

Somehow between his various duties, Williams finds time for his hobby, baking. In fact, he is an accom- plishedOrganization amateur chef (Williams, with self-deprecating humor, calls himself a “foodie”). This hobby began, like his Lincoln studies, at age 11, and he now regularly bakes pastries, pies, and cakes, giving most away to friends.

“I learned baking from my dear mother, a wonderful woman and a great cook. It’s an art form that’s very We’re on the Web! therapeutic,” he said. example.microsoft.com USGA is fortunate to have “The Chief” as its president, and it can look forward to continued future success under his leadership.

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n the spring of 2011, the historical marker on Louisville I Street near the State Shopping Center which observed Back Page Union Colonel Story Benjamin Headline Grierson’s Civil War raid through Starkville was accidentally broken. This story can fit 175-225 words. here. You may want to refer your readers to As a part of Starkville’s commemorationany other forms of ofthe communication 150th that If your newsletter is folded and mailed, this you’ve created for your organization. story willanniversary appear on the back. of the So, Civilit’s a good War, a new historical marker was idea to makepurchased it easy to readby donationsat a glance. from theYou Goldencan also use Triangle this space Civil to remind War Union and Confederate re-enactors showcase an readers to mark their calendars for a regular A questionRoundtable, and answer session the Ulyssesis a good way S. Grant Presidential Library, and authentic Civil War-era cannon at the event, such as a breakfast meeting for to quicklyprivate capture theindividuals. attention of readers. Greensboro Center, Starkville, MS. vendors every third Tuesday of the month, You can either compile questions that you’ve A dedication ceremony unveiling the marker took place on Saturday, Septemberor a biannual 28 atcharity its newauction. location: the received since the last edition or you can corner of Highway 12 and Louisville Street,summarize in somefront generic of Walgreens. questions that The are dedicationIf space is was available, followed this is a goodby a place to program at the Greensboro Center, atfrequently which timeasked wiabounnerst your oforganization. the high schoolinsert essay a clip contestart image orreceived some other their graphic.

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The play dramatizes a story familiar to Grant Association members -- Grant’s determination to save his Organizationhonor and provide for his family by writing his Personal Memoirs after he was left bankrupt in a Ponzi- style swindle by his son’s Wall Street partner, Ferdinand Ward.

Diggs says that it had been her dream when she began work on the play more than four years ago, that We’reit could on be the produced Web! during the sesquicentennial observances of the Civil War.

example.microsoft.com Diggs writes that Grant has been portrayed dramatically as either an accidental hero or as a bloodthirsty butcher. She notes that military historian T. Harry Williams says, “Grant was a success because he was a complete general and a complete character. He was so complete that his countrymen have never been able to believe he was real.” Diggs wanted to portray the real man. While the play is an imagined portrayal of events and not a documentary, her intention was to depict events and characters “without Tagirony” line by goesbeing truehere. to the story.

The surprising friendship between Grant and Twain, which forms during the writing of Grant’s memoirs, is the focus of the play. During this time,Back Twain faPageces the jealousies Story of Grant’s Headline old military secretary Adam Badeau, who Grant hired to help with the book. When the book is half completed, Grant is diagnosed with terminal cancer, and Twain goes into serious debt with a subscription plan while Grant This story can fit 175-225 words. here. You may want to refer your readers to writes in a race against death. any other forms of communication that If your newsletter is folded and mailed, this you’ve created for your organization. In addition to the title roles, the charactersstory will are appear Julia on Dentthe back. Grant, So, it’s Adama good Badeau, Grant’s African American valet Harrison Terrell, and William Perkiideans to makeInge rsit easyoll, toan read iconic at a glance. Union SoldierYou who can alsoappears use this inspace flashbacks to remind readers to mark their calendars for a regular to the war. A question and answer session is a good way event, such as a breakfast meeting for to quickly capture the attention of readers. vendors every third Tuesday of the month, You can either compile questions that you’ve Diggs became captivated by Grant when she read Personal Memoirs of U.or S. a biannualGrant .charity She auction. delved deeply into receivedGrant scholarshipsince the last edition and or undertook you can a personal crash course in the Civil Warsummarize in order someto write generic the questions play. that She are joined If the space Grant is available, Association this is a good in place2012 to and frequentlyattended asked the abou Annualt your Meetingorganization. that Mayinsert in Starkville.a clip art image or some other graphic.

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Address Line 1 Address Line 2 Address Line 3 Julia Grant World Tour Images Digitized Address Line 4 Mailing Address Line 1 Tel: 555 555 5555 hotographs fromMailing a 19th centuryAddress world Line tour 2by former president Ulysses S. Mobile: 555-555-5555 P Grant and wifeMailing Julia now Address may be viewed Line online.3 The images are available Fax: 555 555 5555 through the Mississippi State University Libraries' Digital Collection website, E-mail: [email protected] Mailing Address Line 4 http://library.msstate.edu/dc/usgrant/worldtour. Mailing Address Line 5 The album was donated to the Grant Presidential Library by the president's great-great grandson, Ulysses Grant Dietz. In 1877, the couple embarked on a two-yearOrganization world tour that would solidify the former Union Army commander and U.S. chief executive's repu- tation as an international celebrity. What had been planned as a quiet holiday evolved dramatically as the Grants found themselves in high demand for social engagements, speeches, dinners, and other events hosted by some of the most important people in Europe, North Africa, Asia and Latin America. Along with photographs,We’re on Julia the GrantWeb! recorded impressions of the leaders they met, particularly their interactions with the example.microsoft.comAmerican visitors. The album and biographical notes provide a unique window into the Grants' post- presidential life, while also shedding light on nations and cultures of the world in the late 19th century.

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The Lincoln Forum and the U.S. Grant Presidential Library are pleased to co-host, yet again, with Forum member Charlene Corris of Custom TravelBack Concepts Page, a Civil StoryWar and Abraham Headline Lincoln cruise aboard the beautiful steamer, American Queen May 9-17, 2014. Historian guides John F. Marszalek and Frank J. This story can fit 175-225 words. here. You may want to refer your readers to Williams, with Lincoln interpreter George Buss, will provide lectures and discussions,any other forms and of communication Virginia Williams that If your newsletter is folded and mailed, this will present her illustrated lecture on “A Trip to the Outhouse?” The steamboatyou’ve will created travel for yourfrom organization. New Orleans story will appear on the back. So, it’s a good to Memphis, visiting Vicksburg, St. Francisville,idea to make itNatchez easy to read and at aHelena. glance. You can also use this space to remind readers to mark their calendars for a regular The Sesquicentennial Cruise includesA a question 7-night and cruise answer aboardsession is thea good American way Queen; lodging and event, such as a breakfast meeting for transportation in New Orleans; all meals,to quickly snacks, capture bo thettled attention water, of readers. and beer and wine with dinners; shore vendors every third Tuesday of the month, You can either compile questions that you’ve tours using the “steamcoaches”; evening entertainment in the Grand Saloon,or aincluding biannual charity “An auction. Evening with received since the last edition or you can President Lincoln” (George Buss); Civil War presentations; private reception with Frank Williams, John summarize some generic questions that are If space is available, this is a good place to Marszalek, and George Buss. A portionfrequently of the asked registra abouttion your feeorganization. will be donatedinsert to a eitherclip art imagethe Lincolnor some other Forum graphic. or the U.S. Grant Association. Transportation to the New Orleans airport and to the New Orleans hotel and A listing of names and titles of managers in travel insurance not included. your organization is a good way to give your The cruise Itinerary includes an overnightnewsletter stay a inpersonal New touch.Orleans If your and day trips to historic river towns—St. organization is small, you may want to list Francisville, Natchez, Vicksburg, Helena, and Memphis—where guests will tour antebellum homes, the names of all employees. museums, military sites, and more. Each day will also feature a talk given by a guest historian. Caption describing picture or graphic. If you have any prices of standard products For details and reservations, contact Charleneor services, youCorri cans include at Custom a listing ofTravel those Concepts. Phone (toll-free): 866- 956-4440. Email: [email protected] Organization Name

Address Line 1 Address Line 2 Address Line 3 Address Line 4 Congratulations! Mailing Address•A Look Line Ahead1 • Tel: 555 555 5555 Mailing Address Line 2 Mobile:At the 555-555-5555 2013 Lincoln Forum in  Late November: Registration opens online for the Fax: 555 555 5555 Mailing Address Line 3 Gettysburg, the Ulysses S. USGA Annual Meeting in St. Louis, May 2-4, 2014. E-mail: [email protected] Mailing Address Line 4 Grant Association was www.usgrantlibrary.org. Take advantage of “early bird” Mailing Address Line 5 awarded the Wendy Allen prize registration through January 15. forOrganization outstanding Civil War  January 13, 2014: PBS Documentary “Civil War, The scholarship. The Grant Untold Story” screening and panel sessions, Association is proud of its Mississippi State University faculty and staff for their hard  March 26, 2014: Marszalek Lecture Series, Mississippi work and dedication to Civil We’re on the Web! State University—Dr. John Hubbell, editor of Civil War War scholarship, preservation, example.microsoft.com History and director—emeritus of Kent State University outreach, and education. Press

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