THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF
MARK TWAIN
Grant and the Originator of the Famous March to the Sea
SUSVS BIOGRAPHY
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»m' Grant ha : 3 a long talk
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ten an act ■'• - erf his talk
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Mirk's Account of the
Meeting
SU^V ':., inserted in
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count of mme — as fol
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April 2(>. iS>;
i cali-.f on ; roncral Grant, and took ?usjr with me Ihe
frfi:eri": w d - I i ilang and f«-<flir.fj far i--tter than he hai
looted or feh f r ->mf months. He hui ■•.•■- work
i^iir (jr. hi; I >k that miming, the Srst time W had
doaeasy*- rki r perhaps a month This morning's work
•ras his first attempt at dictating, ard it Tn-ai a thorough
s-jcce>?. lo hi .r- at delight He had always sai 1 that it
irould be *.::-■ ibic for him to dictate anything : but I had
»a-id that he •■■ a noted *"r clearness of statement and a-, a
lUTTitive wa iTnply a statement of consecutive facts, he
*as consequently peculiarly qualified and equipped T >r
... Thi turned out to be true For he had dictated
tvo hours ": it ...... a shorthand wr:t>-r. :;.i-: never
hesitated i'ot v irds, had .... himself, ar. i the
naroscrrpt v ben finished needed no revision The two
h.iur-' v,,r'r. . an account of App<Knattox. and this %va^
such ar ; extn mely imp>ortant feature that his Ixn.k would
cec«ssari'.v :. •■ been severely lame without it. Therefore
I had tak-.-r. horthand writer there beforei to see :: I
could not ;■■ : lira to write at iea-t a few hr.e> about At>
pomattox. [] R-is ),\- publisher. i was putt his "I'er
wsa: Men ir 'to press .... — S L C ] Hut he
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Out ,■ Dctercnce to the Government 1 Stopped Shorn, lor a Di%
.~r.» --.K-n to Sherman . ar.i so after sending s^..rt oi bis army
to defend and hold what he had acquired in the Chat;
tanooga region . he was perfectly tree to proceed with the
rest oi it through Georgia He .-aw the opportunity, and
he would not have been fit for his place i! he had not
seized it
"lie wrote me" (the General ss ppeakiii^i 'what his
plan wa=. and I sent bin-, word to go ahead My stall were
opposed to the movement: V U think the Genera! said
they .... him ... Sherman The chiei of
his 'staff, the General said, even went so far as to go to
Washington without the Gerierars knowledge and get the
ear the authoritiesj and he succeeded in arousing their
:ear^ to such an tent that they telegraphed General
Grant to stop Sherman.)
Then General Grant said. "Out <<: deference to the Gov
ernment. 1 telegraphed Sherman and stoppetl him twenty:
four hours: and then, considering that that was deference
., ,.,i, «,, I*..- c, mment. I telecraphed him t'> i;^ 1 ahead
aß fhave not tried to the General--' language, but only
the general idea of what he said. The thing that mainly
■ terse remark th.i* tht enemy originated
the idea ftl march to the ;ea It struck im- because it
»'a ■ ■ ii the General' epigrammati .
• le lI in .i ingle cripi p ienteni •■ (Thi
a ■ ■ • • !_•■ Mark Twain
SUSY RESUMES
liter papa and General Grant had !..i i t : .--:r talk, we
wei t back to the h >tel where mamma w i and papa t<>!ii
mamma all about his interview with General Grant.
md 1 had a nice quiet afternoon together.
Two Great Cronies
•"PH AT pair of devoted comrades were always shut
ting themselves up together when there was
opportunity to have what Susy called a "cozy time."
From Susy's nursery da] to the end of her life,
she and her mother were close friends,— intimate
friends, passionate adorers of each other Susy's
was a beautiful mind, and it made her an interesting
comrade. And with the fine mind she had a heart
like her mother Susy never had an interest or an
occupation which she was not glad to put aside
fur that something which was in all cases more
precious to her: a visit with her mother. Susy
died at the right time, the fortunate time of life;
the happy age: twenty-four years. At twenty-four
such a girl has seen the best of life — life as a happy
dream. After that age the risks begin; responsi
bility comes, and with it the cares, the sorrows, and
the inevitable tragedy. For her mother's sake 1
would have brought her
back from the grave if 1
could, but I would not
have done it for my own.
FROM SUSY'S
BIOGRAPHY
Then papa went to rea !
i:\ publit . there were a
great many authors that
read, thai Thursday a:n-r
nv.n, besidepapa; I would
Slave iiketl to have gone and
heard p.tpa read, !>ut papa
said he was Ruing to read ii
Vav~jr iti^t what he w.
planning •*■ ... , ] in -...•
York, so I staved at ln.me
with mamma.
The next day mamma
planned t<> take the four
o'clock irk to Hart
• >rd We rose quite early
th.it morning and went I ■
the Vienna Bakery and v •■>'»;
breakfast there From there
we went t'> a German t> >ok
store and bought some
German b-.>oks for Clara'a
birthday.
John Hay'-. Gift
T"\EAR me! thepowerbi
ass^ iciation to snatch
moldy, dead memories
out of their graves and
make hen walk' Ih.it
remark about buying
foreign books throws a
sudden white glare upon
the distant past : and I
see the long stretch of a New York .street with an
unearthly vividness, and John Hay walked down it.
grave remorseful. I was walking down it too
that morning, and i overtook Hay and asked him
what the trouble was. He turned a usterle eye
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I never oil the face again, n«»i they
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Hay was a young bach* and at that time was
on "The Tribune" staff. He explained his trouble
in these words, substantially:
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