DEATH OF GENERAL GRANT. [BY TELEGRAPH-COPYRIGHT.] [REUTERS TELEGRAMS.] New York, July 23.
Gknkhu. Umsses S. Grant died to-day at the ngo of G3.
The follow ing buef biography of the illustrious American geneial is fioni Men of tho Tune :—: — " Ulysses Simpson Grant, eighteenth President of the United States was born at Point Pleasant, Ohio, Apul 27,1822. He entered the Military Academy at West Point in 1830, giaduated in 1843, lecehed his commission as second lieutenant in 184">. and sei ved in the Mexican campaign undei Generals Taylor and Scott. In 1852 ho was ordered to Oregon, and in August, 18't3, became captain. He resigned his commission in July, 1854, and, after a residence of four or hvo years in St. Louis removed in 1859 to Galena, Illinois, wheie he engaged in business with his father and bi others. luom this privacy he was drawn out by the civil war, and having acted fiVt as aido-de c.imp to the Governor of Illinois m 18(51, and afterwards as Colonel of tho 21st Illinois Volunteeis, was. made a Brigadier General in July, 1801. While in conini mil in Cauo, he -ecurod Paducah, and with it Kentucky. In November, 18151, he fought tho battle of Belmont, and in Januaiy, liStil', conducted a reconnaissance to the rear of Columbus. Fort Henry foil Fiibiuaiy l>, and tin days aft< r Fmt bondson siiriendeied to him unconditionally, being followed by the evacuation of Columbus and Bowling Gieen. He was made C'ommandei of tho distiict of West Tennessee, and his forces advanced up that river to Pittsbnig Landing, and fought, April fi and 7, the battle of Slnloh, at which the Confedeiate General A. S. Johnson 10-<t his life. He was second m command to Geneial H.dletk dining the siege of Corinth, and when the latter was ordered to Washington, Grant was appointed to take c uniuauci of the department of Tennessee. He captured Vicksbnig, on the Mississippi, July 4, 18(53, and after the partial defe.it <>f tise Union troojis under Geneial liosecraus, at Chickamaug.i, Tennessee, in September, ho was assigned to the command of the largely reinforced army, and in November defeated General Bragg at Chattanooga, closo by. In Maicli, 18(54, President Lincoln appointed him Lientenant-Geneial, and con fen ed on him the povveis of (Jeneial-in Chief of tho vast annies in tho field. Invested with this authoiity, and having reoiganised thp army of tho East, and ananged with General T. Shciman, tho Commander of the army of the West, to move against General J. E. Johnston, at the same tune that he moved against General Lee, ho pie pared for a vigoious and pi oti acted campaign. The two armies moved eaily in Maj, and, after a seues of hard-fought battles, alternating vv ith repeated flanking movements, which the skill and tact of General Lee rendered aboitivc, (General Grant crossed the James River, between tho 12th and 15th of June, 1804, and proceeded to lay «.iego to Richmond and Pittsburg from tho north and north-east, while a veiy consi.dei.ibla army was cutting off their supplies, and destroying then railroads at tho south and south-west. At length one raiho.id aftci another having been cut, and tho two cities of Richmond and Peteisburg l educed to great straits, while the army of General Lee was lapidly diminishing, the last line waslnoken on April 2nd, 18(55, and Leo, and the lcmu.uit of his army fled westwaul, pursued by Grant. On the llth of Apul, 18(55, Lee suirendcied with his entui; command to Giant at Appomattox. Couit House, Virginia. The surrendei of the other aimies in Ninth Caiohna, Alabama a-nd Texas followed soon after, and the war ended. Afer ts dose tho gratitude (f tho p ople to Gen ril Grant found cxpiession in numerous and valuab'e gifts. On July 2~>th, IKMi, Congiess having cieated the grade of Ceiici.il of the Ann 3. hitlieito unknown in the Army of the United Status he was commissioned Geneial the same diy, and Mdjor-Genei.il Sheiman pi omitted to bo Lieutenant Geneial. Ditleiing in his views fioui President Johnson, whose policy had alienated veiy many of his former fi lends, a coolness spi.uig up between the Piesident and tho Geneial ; this was aggravated by the attempted removal of Secietary Stanton by the Piesident, and still fiuthei by the nomination of Giant for the Piesidency by the Republican puty in May, 18(58, and from that time until the close of Mr Johnson's teim of office in March, 180!), their only inteicouise was official General Giant was elected Presi dent in November, 1808, leceivmg 211 out of the 2!(4 electoral votes of the 20 States then lecognised a-s belonging to Hie Union He wan inaugurated Maich 4, 181/ J. His administiatioii was, upon the whole, highly satisfactory, and in 1872 he was nominated for a second term of four years by tho Republican National Convention. But in tho meanwhile dissatisfaction had giown up among some prominent members of the Republican party. These, taking the name of " Liberal Republicans," nominated for President Mr Horace Giceley. the editor of the New York Tribune. The .Democratic National convention also nominated Mr Greeley, although he had alway* been a .strong opponent to the Democratic party. At tho Piesidential election held in November, 18(52, Grant received 2(58 electoial votes and Gieeley 80, but reckoning by the actual votes cast for each candidate, the election was much more close. The whole number of votes cast was (»,431,13!>; of these there were for Giant 3,507,070, foi Gieeley 2,834,070 ; giving Grant a majority of 7<52,!)!>1. Mr Greoley died November 2!), 1872, just after tho icsult of the election was evident. During the second administiation of Piesident Giant, giave difficulties arose, growing mainly out of financial questions and tho di->tiii bed condition of the South. The elections held m tho autumn of 1874 resulted gencially in favour of the Dumociatio paity, who sucuied a m ijority in the C'ongiessional House of Representatives, which convened in December 1875, while the hitherto laige Republican majority in tho Senate was greatly diminished. Still Grant was by many considered the stiongest candidate whom tho Republicans could present at the next Presidential teim. But", it has come to be a usage, almost equivalent to positive law, that no person shall be made President for more than two quadrennial teims, and Grant was not foimally pressed for a re-nomination. Soon after tho expiration of bin term, on Miuch 4, 1877, he set out upon an extended visit to Km ope." On his return to Americi, General Grant settled down as a private citi/en. L'ltterly his name has come somewhat prominently before the world in connection with tho failure of the house in w Inch his son was a partner. Tho General was involved in tho crash, and saciifieefl all his property, honourably declining the assistance preferred him by Mr Vandeibilr, the puncipal creditor. In response to an unmistakeable expiession of tho popular will, the Government of the United States lestoredhim to the active list as a Geneial with full pay This happened not many months ago, and the General was then in declining health, his n.alady, as was Hubsequently proved, being cancer. The disease made rapid pingress, but under skilled medical treatment it was arrested for a time, and a hope was cntui tamed that the veteran's life might bo spared lormany years. Butthishope was not realised, and Geneial Grant died as above stated on Thur&day, at tho age of 03. His death is all the more to bo deploied because only just lecontly, probably since adversity began to staro him in the face, General Grant had taken up his pen with the object of giving his version of the civil war. He contributed an account of the Battlo of Shiloh to the Centuiy Magazine, and this was to have been followed by others. Tho hand of death has put a period to a history which would havo been full of interest. General Grant's death will strengthen and deepen tho admiration and affection which tho American people entertained for their military hero, and the wholo nation will mourn his loss.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2036, 25 July 1885, Page 3
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1,486DEATH OF GENERAL GRANT. [BY TELEGRAPH-COPYRIGHT.] [REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] New York, July 23. Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2036, 25 July 1885, Page 3
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