Grant Inauguration: The Procession past The First Washington Statue/Monument

Another Tidbit that Will not be in the Book

The ‘Abortion of a Statue’

As I was wrapping up a section of a chapter on the Grant Inauguration, I was reading a fabulous account of that March 4, 1869 day from the New York Times—when it employed not only smarter, more accurate writers, but witty ones as well. The author wrote:

Thousands of people now began to toil up the steep hills on either side of …