The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1863-06-05
From the Washington Chronicle
Major General Grant.

General Grant is about i've feet nine inches
high, has sandy hair and whiskers, blue
eyes, irm and determined mouth, well
shaped nose, and complexion that shows
the fleets OF exposure. He is very far from
" hat is called handsome man. He has .
good form, very square shoulders, and gen.
orally stands squarely on his feet. never rest
irg on one leg, or lcunging against sup
port. He never uses profane or extraragant
language. He is almost model of temper
ance. seldom drinking at all; but he smokes
continually. In conversation he is rarely
animateted. except among his most intimate
and familiar companions. He prld-s him
self on his Workmanship. AT the battle OF
! Monterey he was ordered to carry an order
TO a point where he had to pass under the
FIRE Of battery. He put his horse in full
gallop, threw himself off on one side, after
the manner Of the Indians, holding on by
the horses name and by one leg thrown
over the cantle Of the saddle, and 10 this
position leaped four foot wall. Gen Grant
was married soon after he left the Regular
Army, and has now three children, one OF
" hom. boy about six years old. Is nearly
as good rider as his father.
I General Grant is an unassuming. modest
man, has no personal enemies, never speaks
i'll Of any one, even those who injure him,
knows nothing about politics, has no am hi-
ton office or distinction, but only desires
TO do his duly. General Halleck described
him very we'll when he said: what | like
about Grant is that when he is ordered to
do any thing he sets right about doing it
There are no objections or evasions sug
gesions of delay-not a moments rest I'M
til the order is executed as well as he can
do it with tie means at his command =
Grant is not a man Of the highest order of
intellectual ability, but his operations have
shown him to posses strategical skill of the
highest cha1 acter. particularly those since he
has been his own chief. But he is not one
that we should set down as great man;
and a person seeing him but once would al
most surely have mean opinion OF his pow
ers. Paradoxical as it may seem. 1t has
been General Grants good fortune to have
been always moderated. Newspaper cor
respondents who make it their business 10
criticise and dictate, not to narrate events;
politicians who have places to Gil, and con-
tractors--all have joined in one general and
unbroken denunciatioD OF General Grant.
The conqueror of Fort Donelson, had be
been politician, might have been run for
Senator from linois, and some one else
would have fought the battle of Shiloh,
and the twenty days campaign at Vicks-
burg. Had any political par undertaken
SO presis:ently to make a popular hero out
Of Grant as they have out of some Generals
who have never won success, there would
have been an anti Grant party, and another
wrangle about political Generals. Fortu-
nately Grant is a soldier. and nothing but a
soldier: he has said that he wants to see
this war through and then go back to Ga
lena and sell hardware and leather. He has
never had days leave of absence since
he entered the service, though his family
have twice visited him in camp. His quail
tiles are not therefore appreciated by the
people, though they are by the Govern
ment; which may now feel as great pride
in having sustained General Grant as in any
other instance when they have withstood
popular clsmor and priv ate expostulation.