The Grant Cottage near Saratoga, N.Y. continues its Bicentennial series with a program on Ulysses S. Grant’s stenographer Noble Dawson. Here is the video. I had to turn up the volume to hear it all:
Here are the details:
General Grant’s “Write Hand Man”
General Grant’s “Write Hand Man”
Saturday, May 28
(online virtual program)
During the months General Grant struggled to compose his memoirs, a stenographer named Noble Dawson became his indispensable aide and friend. Dawson was a quick and accurate stenographer and typist, but there’s more to his story than his devoted assistance to the ex- president. During the Civil War, Dawson served in the 19th Iowa and was captured by the rebels, finding himself imprisoned at Camp Ford, Texas, the Confederates’ largest POW camp west of the Mississippi. Noble Dawson is almost overlooked by history. Camp Ford is virtually forgotten. Grant Cottage tour guide Steve Trimm will present a virtual program about the man, the prison camp, and why both ought to be remembered.
