[ Autograph ] Ulysses S Grant 1822-1885 Eighteenth President of the United States and Union Lieutenant General. A.L.S. as President, lp. 8vo., [Washington, n.d.], in pencil to J. G. Pitcher, Superintendent of West Point Grant lists the names of five cadets at the top of the page and writes, in part: ''..Please send the above named Cadets to the hotel this p.m. immediately after the boat races, and oblige...' Grant no doubt wanted to congratulate the latest generation of America's military leaders. With Executive Mansion transmittal envelope franked by his secretary Horace Porter. Light soiling and wear.