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Title: A personal history of Ulysses S. Grant, and sketch of Schuyler Colfax
Year: 1868 (1860s)
Authors: Richardson, Albert D. (Albert Deane), 1833-1869
Subjects: Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 Colfax, Schuyler, 1823-1885
Publisher: Hartford, Conn., American Publishing Company San Francisco, Cal., R. J. Trumbull & Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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t father. It is the truth ; I loaded the logs with no help butDaves. It loas the truth. For this hauling, the body of thewagon had been removed, and the logs were carried uponthe axles. It was a hard job for several men to load. Theywould take the wheels off on one side, let the axles downto the ground, lift on the squared logs with handspikes,then pry the axles up with levers, and put the wheels onagain. That a boy could do this alone was incredible ; andJesse inquired :— How in the world did you load the wagon ? Well, father, you know that sugar-tree we saw yester-day, which is half fallen, and lies slanting, with the topcaught in another tree. I hitched Dave to the logs anddrew them up on that; then I backed the wagon up toit, and hitched Dave to them again, and, one at a time,snaked them forward upon the axles. The ingenious lad had used the trunk of the fallen mapleas an inclined plane, and after hauling the logs upon it, sothat they nearly balanced, had drawn them endwise upon
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DAVEANDMc:GRANTS BOYHOOD IN GEORGETOWN,, OHIO. THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY, ASTOR, LENOX AmOEN FOUNT 1834■) Ulysses Sent to Louisville. 65 his wagon underneath with little difficulty. The feat madehim quite famous in the neighborhood. Did it not involveas much inventiveness, patience, and fertility of resource asthe wonderful campaign which ended in the capture ofVicksburg 1 Ulysses worked hauling the logs all summer, with theexception of a single week, which he spent in Louisville.His father, engaged in a lawsuit, wanted a deposition takenin that city, and had frequently written for it without success.Finally he sent his first-born to attend to the business.Ulysses got the document and started back, but the captainof the steamer on which he sought passage, thinking thelittle fellow must be a runaway at first declined to take him.When, however, he produced a letter from his father, ex-plaining the business on which he had been sent, theadmiring captain brought him back to Maysville

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