The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1865-07-08
Grants Grand Total.

We believe no military hero in the worlds
history has won such important successes.
unclouded by defeat, as our modest and
unassuming Lieut. General. They may be
summed up as follows:
At Fort Donelson, February 18th, 1862.
he captured Ma Gen. S. B. Buckner, with
5000 prisoners, 5000 horses, about 1000
stand of arms, 4S field pieces, IL heavy guns,
and other military stores.
At Vicksburg, July 4th, 1863, he captured
Lieut.. Gen. Pemberton, with 20 general of6-
GERS, 1000 commissioned officers and Is, 900
men-total about "a, 1000. He also captured
l2S pieces of field artillery, and 90 siege
guns, besides SO pieces previously taken
total 30l. Of small arms, As 900, with arms
and munitions of war for 60, 900 men, with
vast quantity of steamboats,, locomotives,
cotton, etc., and more important than all,
the Mississippi. As Vicksburg involved the
| surrender of Port Hudson, we have to credit
to Grant the fruits there gathered 500
prisoners, 81 guns, A, 800 pounds of powder,
| Il, 600 rounds of ammunition, 5000 stand
of arms, two steamers and other stores.
Arkansas Post, captured by detachment
from his command, adds 5000 prisoners and
40 guns. re. s5.l.-
AT Chattanooga, besides the brilliant feat
of rescuing our beleaguered and endangered
army and driving the enemy from a vastly
superior position, he captured 5000 priso-
ners and 40 guns. A detachment Of his
immediate command, under Weitzel, cap
tured 5000 prisoners and lS0 guns at Fort
Fisher and Wilmington. In the crowning
campaign against Richmond, he destroyed
a rebel army of $4,000 men, all of whom
were either killed or wounded, dispersed or
captured. In the final surrender at Appo-
mattox @. H., April 9th, 1865, 5000 priso-
ners, l6, 900 stand of arms, 100 cannon, 20
flags, 1000 wagons, and 4, 900 horses were
all that remained; but at Richmond Weitzel
had previously reported the capture of 800
guns, and a considerable number must have
been captured at Petersburg. -. .s.r,s
This surrender involved the subsequent
surrender of johnson with $4,000 prisoners
and go guns, and was followed by the sur
render of the armies of Dick Taylor, proba-
bly, $4,000. and Kirby Smith and Magruder.
estimated at Is 900. -...F : .arI IL
\ 1t would be safe to say that, including the
captured not above enumerated, 290, ,000men
and 1000 guns have been captured by Gen.
Grant, and as the immediate results of his
victories. His grand total Of captures is
at least twice as great as the forces under
his command at any one time. When We
| add to these figures the rebel killed and
wounded at Donelson, at the battles before
Vicksburg, at Chattanooga and at the
Wilderness, the last of which is estimated
to have amounted to $4,000, and it will
appear that General Grant has put hors du
tured, killed, wounded and dispersed. True
some of these successes were obtained by
desperate fighting and severe losses, but
| ip,r rti al hicto he onxx11
!, not have had Vicksburg without Shiloh, nor
/. Richmond without the terrible battles oi
8 Spottsylvania. In the light of the whole
record, now complete, every one of Grants
q campaigns is demonstrated to have been q
d success. The temporary laurels won by Lee
o Johnson and other rebel chiefs, bat add theil
g tribute to Grants enduring fame. which,
like Moses's divinely consecrated rod, swal.
4 lowed up all the others Chicago Tribune
9 APPEARANCE OF FoRr SuNPrEK.-A cores
I pondent of the Boston Journal says: "Nt
portion of the original face of the wall is te
y be seen, except on the side towards Charles
e ton, and portion of that facing Mouitrie
y From the harbor and from Wagner itappear
n only tumult-the debris of an old ruin
= Ali the. classmates, arches, pillars and para
pets are torn up. rent asunder and utterl,
n demolished. The great guns which tw,
]. years ago kept the monitors at bay, and whicl
!: famed and Numbered awhile upon Wagner
: are dismounted, broken, overturned, and Ii
- buried beneath the mountain of brick, dust
!. concrete, sand and mortar. After Dupont
n attack in April, 1868, reinforcement 0
1s Palmetto logs was made on the barbor side
,r and against half Of the wall facing Moultrie
" The lower tier Of classmates was filed e
A. with sand btgs, but when General Gilmor
70 obtained possession of Wagner, his fr
- began to crumble the parapet.
l. REDUCTION OF ExPENsEs.-Sincs the ssnz
wander of Tao and hsa armv tha Govorr,