Death of General Grant

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 19, 25 July 1885, Page 2

Death of General Grant

„ . [smur Tsiseß^]/] , „,. NiwrioßK, Jafy23. General ;Tny^b&;;G«»*-4fo&to-day at the age of $3 year*/. Vi , v >- " Men ;oflbe^^^l«riie;|iollowing :'— Grant, ,Uiya^a } Simpaoiv eighteenth- President; pf 3% United States,; born rat P : pint { PJ£jgantrjOh|o, April 27, : 1822 M; H« en^B^t^ MUi>tary Academy 'at Wejt/sy&^j|^ graduated in .1843, TecmfedMs comminion as second 'Keutw&ttln 1845, and..served . in- .-•tT|i^C.'M«*r»<MW *Wnpnfrh undeVGeueralß Taylor ancFScofltF^on 1852 he was dr^erctt*i# 3 X>regon, r and in Aug., 1853, became contain. _He resignedlis wmmii&bn i&trSyf 1154, and, after k residence 1 of ftftf or>five yWi in Si Lbuisv removed u'lBW t« Galena, Illinois, wtert he%ng^e* in business wifih hirfather and brother*. From this privs^hVwas d&wnont by the eivil war,7ta^ having sifted first asiude-tioHdaanpti^he Gfevwrnorbdf'llUnoi6inlß6l' arid afte^araßabGblonel of the 21 at EKimis Volunteers, was made a Brigiadiw<>Generaiut ( July, : 1861. While ia command in GaLto, he securedPaducah, and witKit Kentucky. In Nor.y 1861, he fought the battle of Belmont, and in Jan., 1862v«ondueted a recoanais»anc»to the rear =o# bus. Port Henry fettFeb. «, and ten days after Fort Donelson sufnindered to him unconditionallT, beingJMknred by the eradiation ox Golnmbus and Bowling Green. He was made Commander of the district of Wes^ Tennessee, and his forces adranced up that • river to Fittsburg TiftT^^^gy^HH-fwrgfat,-April 6 and 7, to battle of ShOoh, at which the^ Confederate general : Aj S. jTohnston lost his life. He w^s seeond in command to General Halleck during ithe siege of Corinth, and when the .latter . was ordered to- Washington, Grant -was ; fa^n^[''^jttSfB u^ar mand of .tibe department of Tennessee. He capjbtired Yicksbinrg, an&eiftisßia* sippi, Jiiily 4, 1863, and after t|ejpartiaf defeat of the Unioa troops, under General Bosecrans, at Chicamauga, Tennessee, in - Sept he was assigned to the command of. the largely reinforced army, and in November defeated General Bran, at by. In March, 1864,~lSresidentIincoln appointed lam lieut.-General, and oonlerred on'him the. poww» of General-in-Chief of the vast armies in the field. Invested with this auther^y, andhaving reorganised the army of fie East, and arranged with General,^ ft. Sherman, the Commander of the, army of the West, to J. £. Johnston, at the same'tme tbkt he moved, against Gen. Le*, he prepared ffl^: a vigjorous and protracted campaign. The two atxales moved early m May, and, after a mrimk hardfonght battles, alternating, ; with^re-peated-fl&nlnng movements, whisliflte sjaU and tact of Generalliee rehdesd ?ames\Biwf, . between, 15th of June, ; 1864, • and procfadsp» 4 lay aiege-jt* Itlchmond and.PetersWM ' From the north and Wwrn cwtsr,' w^Hfy* ■ rery considerable army was cu^nginß ' their • supplies, . and destroying-ltheir railroads at the south and so^h-west. A.t length one. railroad f after another baving been cut, and the two cities of Richmond and Petersburg' reaped to neat strains, while the, army of Gen. Lee was rapidly .diminishing, theltft ine was broken on April 2, 1865, and Lee and the remnant of his army fled westward, pursued by Grant. On the )th of April, 1865, Lee 1 surrender^ irith his entire command to Grant At poiirt Hoiise, yirgints, Che surrender of tin 'olin&inuet, ia

North Carolina, Alabama, ajid Toxas followed soon after, and the war ended. Gen. Grant was elected President in Nov., 1868, receiving 214 out of the 294 electoral votes of the 26 States then recognized as belonging to the Union. He was inaugurated March 4, ' 1869. His^ administration was, npon the whole, highly satisfactory. Soon after the expiration of his term, on March 4,. 1877, he set out upon an extended visit to Europe. Although now mferely- a -private citizen, he has been received in every country which He has visited with the consideration due to his former elevated civil and military position.