The New York herald., 1865-12-08

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it may be that sufficient AMOUNT OF the need
fuln is in the Fenan Golfers to obvate the neces-
sity for their issue at all If this latter De the
case we heartily congratulate the =. b. on tne
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former, the public has been done an injustice
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The History OF enc Wsr-General Grants
Report.
General Grant writes as he fights. The d.e
ference between his report and tho other re-
ports that have recently been laid before the
public Is as broad and clear as between his
battles and the battles Of any of the gen.
erals who preceded him in the eommand Of
our armies. He is equally incorporating in
the field and on paper. He goes straight to the
point He states the particulars Of battle in
half dozen sentences that leave us nothing
to desire. BE tells the truth fearlessly and
openly. He praises with most generous free
dom all whose actions he can >appr0ve;
but If any unlucky delinquent comes in the way
Of his curt, brusk narrative, SO much the
worse for that delinquent. He has, in short,
in his report added to military literature q
document that Is impressed through and through
with the qualities of his own mind-that is.
bold, free, simple, incisive, and direct in the ex
treme-a document that is as superior TO all
other mere formal official reports as his achieve
ments were to everything else in our military
history.
Grants report shows how magniHcently the
drama of war will 60 ahead when all it's parts
are under the direction Of master mind, and
when the purpose Is to carry on war in real
earnest and annihilate the armed force OF the
enemy. 1t quite involuntarily puts in the
broadest and clearest light the distinction
between the conduct of the war in the year
when Grant was Lieutenant General and di-
rected all our operations, and the way in
which it was conducted in the years before he
rose to that high position. The country re-
members very well how we biundered on
through all those early years; how our opera
tions langu shed until it often seemed that the
result would be against US by, default; how
often our generals marched up hill only to
march down again. But In this report it is
called to mind again how different the style
was in Grants year; with what directness and
purpose everything went forward; how
promptly blow followed blow, and how
grand was the progress of events from
his starting point at Chattanooga to the final
scenes when the history of the war became
"the record Of the successive surrenders" Of
rebel generals. "From the first" says the
hero, II was firm in the conviction that no peace
could be had that would be stable and condu-
Give to the happiness of the people, both North
and South, until the military power Of the re-
bellion was entirely broken That was the
key note. II was waste Of time TO parley,
utterly useless to stand with folded hands and
wait to see II may be some one could not patch
up the quarrel. There was nothing to do but
to ht-fght-fght! to "hammer c0ntinu-
ouely," to pound away until the enemy should
be SO exhausted by the power we could array
against him that he should not have the
strength to raise hand against the govern
ment. With what wonderful persistency and
effect Grant carried on the war in this way his
report tells, and no other historian will ever
equal the force, lucidity and point with which
he tells 1t.
Some Of the best parts Of the report are it's
references to other generals, and we see their
exact value given at once to the good and
the bad, as il they were weighed in the very
scales Of justice.
Grants references to Butler put that doughty
parsonage before the country in the proper
light for the first time. They show how prac-
cal, sincere man regards such an empty, blatant
pretender, and justly hold him up to contempt.
Butler was instructed from the first in the CAM
paign against Richmond that that city was bis
objective point, and that he was to cooperate
with the Army Of the Potomac, and to seize or
invest the rebel capital while Meade engaged
Lee on the Rapidan. The plan was perfect,
and no person with less ingenuity than Butler
would have found it possible to spoil it. But
Ter, however, managed wonderfully not to do
what was requisite. He vas shown that Rich
mond could not be reinforced from the south
or from Lees army, and was at his mercy; but
instead Of seizing it he sat down at Bermuda
Hundred and wrote dispatches and suffered
the enemy to as completely shut him off from
further operations against Richmond as If he
had been in bottle strongly corked.' y
Such is Grants contemptuous disposal ol
Buffers cooperation against the rebel capi-
tai. Subsequently, when Grant was crossing
the James, the enemy left the road from Rich.
mond to Petersburg on Buffers front unde.
Tended, and Butler seized it. Grant, seeing the
advantage, sent the Sixth corps to enable But.
the Sixth corps in idleness, while the enemy
recaptured the road. Nothing but Buffers
Fort Fisher failure could have put climax tc
these achievements Grant shows how the
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