[Illustration: U.S.G FIRST IN WAR FIRST IN PEACE AND FIRST IN THE HEARTS OF HIS COUNTRYMEN] =OUR STANDARD-BEARER;= OR, THE LIFE OF =GENERAL ULYSSES S. GRANT:= _HIS YOUTH, HIS MANHOOD, HIS CAMPAIGNS, AND HIS EMINENT SERVICES IN THE RECONSTRUCTION OF THE NATION HIS SWORD HAS REDEEMED:_ AS SEEN AND RELATED BY CAPTAIN BERNARD GALLIGASKEN, _COSMOPOLITAN_, AND WRITTEN OUT BY OLIVER OPTIC. ILLUSTRATED BY THOMAS NAST. BOSTON: LEE AND SHEPARD. 1868. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1868, by WILLIAM T. ADAMS, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. Electrotyped at the Boston Stereotype Foundry, No. 19 Spring Lane. TO THE ILLUSTRIOUS SOLDIER, _GENERAL ULYSSES S. GRANT,_ PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES FROM MARCH 4, 1869, THE ONLY MAN WHO HAD THE MENTAL POWER, THE MORAL FORCE, THE MILITARY GENIUS TO SUPPRESS THE GREAT REBELLION, THE MIGHTIEST THE WORLD EVER SAW; THE MAN WHOM, FIRST IN WAR, AND FIRST IN THE HEARTS OF HIS COUNTRYMEN, THE NATION WILL SOON ACKNOWLEDGE TO BE FIRST IN PEACE, =This Volume= IS ADMIRINGLY AND ENTHUSIASTICALLY DEDICATED. PREFACE.