Thursday, March 1, 2012

1862 March 3 Waynesburg Greene Co

Waynesburg Greene Co
March 3rd 1862

Major Gen. Grant;
Dear Sir:
In
consideration of the Services
rendered to our country in
the hour of peril, and your
devoted attachment to her, and
and[sic] the high appreciation of
your talents, as a Military Officer,
and knowing you to be a
friend of education, and possessing
extraordinary literary attainments;
you are unanimously elected to
honorary membership in the
Union Literary Society of Waynesburg
College Penn.

Yours Res.
J. A. Lindsay
P. R. Bruden
E.G. Dunn
Cor. Com. [corresponding committee?]

With Grant's famous memoirs still decades in the future the reference to his "extraordinary literary attainments" is a bit puzzling unless the students are referring to his succinct reply to Simon Bolivar Buckner, the commander of Fort Donelson, who had asked for surrender terms: "no terms except unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works."



MSS 10645

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