Excerpt from Death of General U. S. Grant: Funeral Memorial Service at Bristol, R. I., August 8th, 1885General U. S. Grant died at Mount Mc Gregor, Saratoga County, N. Y., on Thursday morning, July 23, 1885, at eight minutes past 8 o'clock. The sad tidings were almost instantly ¿ashed all over our land, and caused universal sorrow.Soon after the event became known in Bristol, ¿ags were set at half-staff, and the show-windows of stores were draped in emblems of mourning.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.