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Adam Badeau was born in New York City on December 29, 1831, the son of Nicholas Badeau, a descendant of a French Huguenot family,
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Adam Badeau (December 29, 1831 – March 19, 1895) was an author, Union Army officer, and diplomat. Adam Badeau was born in New York City on December 29, 1831. He was raised and educated in Tarrytown and North Tarrytown (now Sleepy Hollow), and became a clerk in New York City's Street Department.He also studied law, and attained admission to the bar in 1855. In addition, Badeau was a writer, and his work as an essayist and theater critic was published in Noah's Sunday Times.
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This is a poignant and intimate account of General Ulysses S. Grant's last days, written by Adam Badeau. Badeau volunteered for military service in the United States in 1862, early in the Civil War. He was appointed military secretary to General Grant, with the rank, first of Lieutenant-Colonel and ultimately, colonel. He was with Grant throughout the Wilderness and Appomattox campaigns, and remained on his staff until his retirement from the army in 1869, with the full rank of captain and the brevet rank of Brigadier-General. He accompanied General Grant on his post-Civil War tour around the world. The two remained close friends for the remainder of Grant's life. Badeau writes: “His character at bottom was like that of other men. He loved and hated; he suffered and enjoyed; he appreciated what was done for and against him; he relished his fame and his elevation, he felt his disappointments and his downfall; his susceptibilities were keen, his passions strong; but he had the great faculty of concealing them so that those closest could seldom detect their existence. I sometimes wondered whether he was conscious of his own emotions, they were so completely under control; but they were all there, all alive, all active, only enveloped in a cloak of obstinate reserve and majestic silence which only at the rarest intervals was torn aside by misfortune or lifted for a moment to a friend.”
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Excerpt from Grant in Peace: From Appomattox to Mount McGregor, a Personal Memoir Was that all right? The disclosure is no betrayal of his confidence, now that his modesty can no longer be pained. It cannot but make his calm and stalwart nature still more interesting to know that it covered the ordinary softnesses of humanity. The living, breathing man is nearer to us than the statue Of stone or unreal demi-god. The Grant that I knew was full of human nature. He had his weaknesses, but they made him more lovable sometimes to those Who found them out he had his faults, but to deny this would be to deny that he was mortal. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Adam Badeau was born in New York City on December 29, 1831, the son of Nicholas Badeau, a descendant of a French Huguenot family,
He received a secondary-school education at Tarrytown, New York.
He then procured an appointment as clerk in the State Department. At the outbreak of the Civil War, Badeau became an aide on the staff of General Thomas West Sherman , and in 1862 on that of General Quincy Adams Gillmore. On April 8, 1864, General Grant announced the appointment of Adam Badeau as a military secretary on his staff. Grant seems to have relied heavily on Badeau's abilities, and on February 20, 1865, recommended that he be made colonel by brevet.
After Grant's inauguration as president, Badeau became secretary of the legation at London, and in May 1870 was appointed consul-general at that port. He remained in London almost all the time until 1881 except as he accompanied Grant for a time on his travels. In 1881 he was nominated by Garfield to be chargé d'affaires at Copenhagen, but the nomination met opposition in the Senate. In 1882 he accepted the position of consul-general at Havana, where he busied himself, in addition to his ordinary duties, in making a report on the defenses of Havana, and in writing an article for the Century (February 1884) on Sheridan.
On his return to America, he collaborated with Grant on an article about the battle of Shiloh, and at the latter's suggestion went to live at Grant's house to aid in the preparation of the General's Memoirs. His connection with this task ended in May 1885. After Grant's death in the same year Badeau wrote many articles on military and other subjects. He died at Ridgewood, New Jersey, March 19, 1895.
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In 1884 Badeau disagreed with the administration policy in regard to Cuba, on the ground that the interests of Americans there were being "grossly neglected"; and he declared also that "culpable frauds" had been committed at the Havana consulate.