The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1864-04-07

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Christi, where Lieut. Gen. Grant was
promoted to first lieutenant on the
30th of September. He served under
Gen. Taylor. and participated in the
battles of Paloe Alto, Resaca de Ia
Palma, and Monteraoy, and with Gen.
Scott from Vera Cruz to the city of
Mexico. He was twice brevstted for
gallant services, receiving the rank of
brevet captain for meritorious conduct
on the 18th of September. ls47, at the
storming of Chepultepec. He was in
all of Taylor's and Scott's battles that
it was possible for one man to be in,
and was eulogized by his commanding
officers, as may be seen by reference
to their reports, and that of the Secre-
tary of War.
Gen. Worth highly complimented
Lieut.. Grant in his report. Major
Francis Lee, commanding the 4th in
fantry, in his report says: "Second
Lieut.. Grant behaved with distin-
guished galantry on the 18th and 14th."
Brevet Col John Garland, command
ing the lst brigade at Chapultepee,
says: 81 must not omit to call attention
to Lieut.. Grant, 4th infantry, who ac
quilted himself most nobly upon sew
eral occasions under my own obserya-
tion." In the same memorable en-
gagement Grant assisted Capt. Horace
Brooks, I'd anftntry, to carry strong
field work, and turn the enemy's right.
For these meritorious services Con-
gress awarded him brevet captaincy
in the regular army, which was con-
frmed in January, 1855.
After the conclusion of the war the
Fourth Infantry returned to the Allan.
tic States, with headquarters at Detroit
and Sackett's Harbor. Gran. was re-
tanned as Quartermaster of that regi-
ment. -
Soon after his return from Mexico,
Lieut.. Grant married a Miss Dent OF
st. Louis, Mo-, lady of re6nment and
elegant manners.
In 1852 the Fourth Infantry was or.
dered to Oregon, where Grant was
promotedSt ito full Captain in the regu
lar army, and assigned to COMPANY
stationed four hundred miles in the in.
terror Of California. After two years
separation from his family be resigned
and came home, settling in ST. Louis
county, Mo-, but in 1855 removed to
Galena, ILL.,, and entered his fathers
leather and saddlery store.
NOT A GREAT BUSINESS MAN.
In 1855 we find Grant private citi-
zen on small piece of ground near
ST. Louis, from which he was often
seen to hall. wood, dressed in a farmers
garb, to sell at Carondet, o village ad-
Joining that city. Many citizens there
reccollect the delivery by him, at their
woodhouses, of the honest load. In
the summer he had recourse to collect
ing for housiness houses, and does
not seem to;have shown any great
skill in the art of dunning. The father
a tanner, the son rarely comes nearer
to joke than when he expressed some
pride in his knowledge of hides, leath-
er and the art of tanning, while the
nation praises him for what he knows
in the art of war.
PERSONAL TRAITS.
| The public have often heard the
charge that Gen. Grant is dissipated
men, and how desirous the President
was to give some other Generals some
of the same kind of whisky; that he
is an inveterate smoker, dressed like
Iaborer, DC. The first of these ac-
cusatious is happily entirely untrue.
As to the rest, the public very natural
ly, in the absence of authentic particu-
lars, imagined the frequent counter
parts which would make up altogether
the notion of jovial good fellow of
the sporting sort, with that peculiar
swagger of good natured demagoguery
which makes so much spurious emf
nence in this country, and which covers
itself from damaging scrutiny by some
contagious joke or jolly buffoonery'
Nothing could be more mistaken.
Grant like his mother before him, new
er jokes, rarely laughs. He never uses
profane or indecent word, abhors
!, dispute, and has never had personal
controversy in his life with boy or
man never made speech, led fac
, ton, or engaged in idle sport; never
sad, he is never &c always cordial
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