...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant by U. S. Grant, the Pennsylvani... ...d was a widower at the close. Soon after this he emigrated to Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, and settled near the town of Greensburg in that count... ...r set up for himself in business, establishing a tan- nery at Ravenna, the county seat of Portage County. In a few years he removed from Ravenna, and ... ... my school-days in Georgetown were spent at the school of John D. White, a North Carolinian, and the father of Chilton White who represented the distr... ...ng to West Point would give me the opportu- nity of visiting the two great cities of the continent, Phila- delphia and New York. This was enough. When... ...ve. The soldiers were principally foreigners who had enlisted in our large cities, and, with the exception of a chance drayman among them, it is not p... ...h traffic the moment Fort Henry became ours. Fort Donelson was the gate to Nashville—a place of great mili- tary and political importance—and to a ric... ...on his services in the Mexican war. He telegraphed to General Johnston, at Nashville, after our men were within the rebel rifle-pits, and almost on th...