Litchfield enquirer., 1865-09-21
L7E3 -'FF- f7Fl. TT ' 2 THE OBSCURE DAYS OF A HERO,

tAA "nnSSus Ot Iue reception Of Gen. Grant, a
 DIS nome ID Galena, Illinois, last week, give
 some interesting statements of the hero's earl,
 struggles with adverse fortune. It. ia ,e,evar j years since he resigned his commission as cap
 taln In the regular army, alter distinguishing
 n'mseif ID every battle in Mexico except one at which he Was not present, and went to St Louis, where he had some interest in piece oi
 land, and engaged in hauling wood to market 1 himself driving his own oxen. On the dsati, of his brotser he went to Galena to take care
 of' his fathers leather store.s hi eH'i'Es' -.: | Captaln Grant, as he was called, found the
 affairs of the concern in great disorder. but he
 went to work. and in three weeks had every thing straight. There was one clerk beside
 fimself. and generally more or less hired men
 As this was the only establishment of the kind
 ID the place. the trade of which is large. there
 was much business to do Captain Grant was $
 not remarkable n,,ar as 3 salesman, but he was good
 to oversee m md anla manage, Generally he hough,
 the, hioes as tbey were brought to the store in
 country wagons F.. .teok ihem in. hirsef :
 That be might not dirtxs his tclp,he. he had a
 snort leather apron, wbich be always worp4-, Those not acquainted instook him fur ,h. n
 ter. @insthis way. herein tn. city af G ,l,a
 ne to''ed on for two long ysar4. H. " s on.
 p'oyed at $40 q month. Tie intention o, ,h,
 part Of his father was ofter while. 10 estabIsh
 him in the business, but ha was xn.,.,,d ,a., dla
 i've on S4S0 year. To do this. and to live
 ln society was impossible Everything ,un., pc cheap and plain Som.times his Wife b,u
 a hired eirl.but usually she did her own work 7'a Dar'ng theseltwo years Captain Grant mad,. very 'ew acqualrtances. There were plaatv
 u5 oqs'ness men on he street who did not know him. and who never heard his name sno sen'' presume it would be easy to number ms associates on one'si fingers. I have heard business men say they never heard of him till ne was put in command at Cairo. These two years were years of trial and disbursement. In fact the: captain came hither from St. Louis in great degree disheartened still he would not give ap. He is described as a broken down man!4 staai cal fo Esa edi .ss. Dltf.. af' " Captain Grant was drawing beyond his ex penses, though this was not ascertained till the end of the year. He could not live on forty dollars month. He seldom went abroad. A few neighbors were all he visited here he would sit and smoke his pipe. His converse tlon vas varied, but be liked to talk on the Mexican war. Mostly he was man of silence. Hon. MT. Washburns of Illinois, says that he seemed to him to be thinking on some abstract subject, and that he took him to be a thought ful, reflective and large minded man. d Such being his condition, one isireminded of the case of Frederick the Great, during. the years he was banished by his father But in whatsoever makes man, Grant, the American hero, far excels. He always was temperate. and every way correct in his behavior. flo aa'a1c" 7~.
 A month or so before the Fort Sumter out rage, and afterwa.d, Capt. Grant was uneasy. He walked through the streets, and to and fro in the, store, saying nothing, and apparently was in 2 troubled state of mind. About those days the Douglas Guard organized in the city to counteract the Lincoln Wide Awakes. and Capt. Grant, as military man, was appointed orderly sergeant His reply was that a cap tain in the United States infantry was not the one to take such position He did not go near them. He meddled so little with politics that it is to this day unknown whether he voted for Lincoln or Douglas. 7' aff'a ?. ;e'-' sAt #,
 At last war came. Then Capt. Grant said that he had been educated at West Point at the expense of the government he had resign. ed, never never expecting to serve again, but now he offered li bis services for what they were worth, ! He vent to Springfield, offered his services aud after some delay he Was set to work drawing | lp and copying papers,. After, while, he told | them they could get come one to do such work Is we'll ast be fora dollar a day. 1t was not in his linesto be kept in corner at a desk: seeing ,obody and doing so little. He was met cold J. nobody knew him.. nobody cared for him -i Then he was sappointed an aide of Gov Yates, md directed to hunt Up the state arms. He ound about one thousand rusty amusketsq He slso mustered in men! Still so many were his aud g., coidly was be looked dpo6 that he told his ftisads he was net waut- efi and ,kit he had better 90 hStnnee 5ir ea
 The itnSortanc4 of lis abes,i2ss fuiliary m an was urged upon the governor. I. wss .,rs,p ,s- 1. ed he should be 1be G5fosel Of tils afs, F.,y Ii. ment but another satitro5 ss.u '- .,eH Y sa{ t' Aoaut this iinaeNCapts Graat lweTt n Dbio to see his faiherr.a when Gov. Denuiso, wass urged 1o give him an 9 appe;ntaenl.x Then heasI came back to Illinois. Bybsh,s4itiene s,h4 2l s, regiment had bscofes 1demofal;z4sd Tn. ma s, talked of putting the colonetin the guard hoass. Capt. Grant wasseat9 te them, the men uera quieteds and then our M captain was appo,n,ea Ii The regiment turned out fo k4 one of the best in the state. Then Col. G rant came back to Galensa to get his clothes. H4d had to have a uSifofmN N TO get it, money aslh borrowed andssecarity given for the money -1 The American people can afford to read this now. fS t,ea x iitEt
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