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Title: Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 34 December 1886 to May 1887
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: various
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Publisher: New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University-Idaho

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racted ; all this told on that body whichhad endured so many sleepless nights andprolonged marches, which had suftered fatigueand hunger and watchings, and that soulwhich had withstood cares and responsibilitiesand torturing anxieties such as have fallen tothe lot of no other man in our time; for noother bore on his single shoulders the weightof the destiny of a great nation at the verycrisis of its history; no otlier stood before theenemy and the country and the world as theincarnation of the hopes and fears and effortsof a people waiting to be saved. These labors^endured long before, told now, and made himless able to withstand the shocks of fortuneand of nature, and he gradually succumbed. When the extent of General Grants humilia-tion became a common story, when it wasdisclosed to the world that the house in whichhe lived was no longer his own, that his booksand furniture were held on sufferance, thathe was stripped even of the insignia of his 926 rilE LAST DA YS OF GENERAL GRANT.
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LIEUTENANT U. S. GRANT AND GENERAL ALEXANDER H(FROM A PHOTOGRAPH OF AN OLD DAGUERREOTYPE. fame, while he seemed neglected and forgot-ten in his adversity by the nation he had doneso much to save, then even his stout heartgave way. All his symptoms were aggravat-ed ; his pains increased, the appalling de-pression of spirit returned, and more than all,the exhaustion of his strength — f^ir greaterthan the disease alone could at that stagehave produced — occasioned the physiciansas well as the family the most painful solici-tude. Dr. Barker and Dr. Douglas had asyet retained the case exclusively in their ownhands. They had never deceived the family,but .said from the beginning that the diseasewas epithelial cancer ; that it might be ar-rested, l)Ut they had never known it cured.Neither Mrs. (irant nor theCleneral had beentold so much, although both of course knewthat the case was critical, and both were un-doubtedly anxious. What (ieneral Grant inhis heart feared or expected he said t

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