Collection of six documents related to Ulysses S. Grant and loss of $1000 in public funds [Decimalized .01-.06]

Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 Collection of six documents related to Ulysses S. Grant and loss of $1000 in public funds [Decimalized .01-.06]

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Pertains to theft of $1000 in public funds entrusted to Ulysses S. Grant when he was lieutenant in 1848. Grant had placed the money in his captain's trunk for safe-keeping when the trunk was taken and the money stolen. Four of the six documents are affidavits written in Grant's own hand and signed by his captain, himself, and two other soldiers testifying to the truth of Grant's story. The fifth and sixth are letters about the case from the U.S. Treasury Department, written in 1852. Grant was not cleared until June 1862, when Congress cancelled the debt, after his victories at Forts Donelson and Henry.

GLC#
GLC02305
Type
Header Record
Date
June 26, 1848-February 16, 1852
Author/Creator
Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885
Title
Collection of six documents related to Ulysses S. Grant and loss of $1000 in public funds [Decimalized .01-.06]
Place Written
Camp Jalapa, Mexico
Pagination
6 items.
Primary time period
National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
Sub-Era
Age of Jackson
Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885
President
Union General
Mexican War
Latin and South America
Finance
Criminals and Outlaws
Military History
Military Law

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Collection Item
Manuscript letter signed

Affidavit of Lieutenant D. F. Jones 4th Infantry

26 June 1848

Jones, Del. Floyd, fl. 1848

Swears that he assisted Ulysses S. Grant in counting a bag of money that Grant brought into his quarters in early June. It was exactly $1000. They put it in a bag and Grant said he would place it in the trunk of Captain Alvord, but Jones...

GLC02305.01
Collection Item
Manuscript letter signed

Affidavit of Captain John H. Gore 4th Infantry

26 June 1848

Gore, John H., fl. 1848

Swears that Ulysses S. Grant asked his permission, on about 7 June, 1848, to "place a bag of public money in my private trunk, saying at the time, that he considered it the most safe place for its conveyance on the march which we were preparing to...

GLC02305.02
Collection Item
Manuscript letter signed

Statement of Lieutenant U. S. Grant Regiment Quarter Master

27 June 1848

Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885

Swears he took the sum of $1000 to Captain Gore's room on June 6 "to be locked up in his trunk for safe keeping, my own chest having previously had the lock broken. I also deemed it safer to have public money in the room of some officer who did not...

GLC02305.03
Collection Item
Manuscript letter signed

Affidavit of Lieutenant DeRussy 4th Infantry

27 June 1848

DeRussy, John, fl. 1848

Swears that Ulysses S. Grant deposited $1000 in the trunk of Captain Gore in early June. Comments that on the night of June 16, "the trunk containing said funds was stolen from the tent of Capt. Gore, this whilst Capt. Gore and myself were both...

GLC02305.04
Collection Item
Manuscript letter signed

[Report] of 3rd Auditer on Claim of Lt. Grant

February 12, 1852

Gallaher, John S., fl. 1848

Letter to Secretary of the Treasury Thomas Corwin. States that in a previous letter, Secretary Corwin had referred to a report by Congressman Seymour regarding the alleged loss of $1000 by Ulysses S. Grant. Responds that he examined the accounts...

GLC02305.05
Collection Item
Manuscript letter signed

to Origen Storrs Seymour

February 16, 1852

Corwin, Thomas, 1794-1865

Responds to Congressman Seymour's request for information on the Grant case. Replies, "no credit can be given on account of such alleged loss unless expressly authorized by Act of Congress. I am not aware of any case where this Department has...

GLC02305.06