, 1866-01-16

st50, ,O00,n as representing his losses In Vir-
ginia, are held up before his eyes, and there
Is passage In his report which reads very
Views" W aays be, ssmisht have been Better il
conception and execution is for the people
who mourn tho loss orfriends fallen, and who
hare to pay the pecuniAry cost, to say AL
! can say Is that what hare done hiss been
done to the beat Of my ability, and in what
conceived to be the best interests of the whole
country"
As fat as plans can be justified by events,
that justification belongs certainly to Grant.
Ills system wns successful where every other
system had failed. His campaign brought
the War to m end, whereas every former
campaign had left the contest pretty nearly
as it stood before. It must be understood,
TOO, that wherever military science appears
is Grants also. The scheme Of Sherman'a
CAMPAIGN WIS dictated by Grant, as were
others less important and less fortunate.
Ihe grand principle Of the whole system was
cooperation. Besides the two great armies
Of the East and West which, On this occa-
hall dozen other armies IL motion, to d.;
traet, occupy and punish the enemy at all
points together. TIE orders originally given
to Sherman were tint he should advance
steadily and through all obstacles to AIanta,'
IN Important railroad centre In the north Of
Georgia, that be should ocenpy that town, and
and holding the line Of communication.
cut The Confedesacy In two at that point, as
had already been done on the line Of the Mis-
sissippi. On this understanding Sherman
moved moved from Chattanooga, Just as Grant al-
Fn1sed upon Richmond, with wl.at results Is
well known. As to Grant himself, With
Meade's army under ILLS Immediate command,
be admits US into the secret OF his calcula-
ttons. lie Intended to do his utmost By dInt
Of blows to destroy Lees army north Of
Richmond, but be hardly hoped 10 succeed.
Az he reckoncd upon vas Weakening his enc
tinctly that In anticipation Of the failure
which be evidently considered probable, lie
had resolved from the first, to transfer his
army to the south Of the james river, md
had acquainted beth Butler aud Meade with
tAi5 resolution. This was what occurred.
Not all the sanguinary fighting In Firginia
sufllced against the skill Of the Con-
Il ts0s'' S 9aop, and aud e!an shs 'te[ a
t1n,ately found himself south Of the james
Eith IN inaccessible enemy still in hts front.
Az Tor Butler, Gen. Grant says that he got his
force into such q position that, for the pur-
pose Of any co-opcEntion against Richmond, It
was about as available Il as II II had been Ia
bottle strongly corked." In the end, how
eyer-that Is to say, In the eleventh month Of
tAS NAAsHn1Nu~AHd AEH lAClIEH Q0fE lQGlF
ffnit. Some Of the cooperating armies had |
failed, but others had succeeded beyond CT
pectation. Banks rs we'll as Butler had been
unsuccessful, and 80 had Elgel, and so had |
Rosecrans; but Sherman, after a most memo
Tab1e march, found himself able not only to 70 |
from Atlanta to Savannah, but to sweep north
ward with his victorious army to the assist |
ance Of Grant himself. At the game time. as
The final scene drew near, other expedi-
lions .,had4 proceeded according to Grants
orders. Sheridan had secured the Sheuan-
doah Valley. stoneman was advancing upon
Lvnchbnrg, and On every side The armies Of
Fhe North were closing ia upon the Southern
'gpltal. At lust tho catastrophe came, and
n the course Of q single month, We learned
3ot only that Richmond was taken, but that
Lhe Whole war was finished aud the CoDledcr-
Icy thing OF the past. That result is, m
due to the "military arithnetic''
u Gen. Grant. Hc Is no. the tIrst conaueroy
sho adopted the principle, though he was
he first to apply It 10 the resources Of a whole
2eople instead Of the division OF a single army.
dc Is entitled, therefore, to the credit which
complete success confers and indeed, terri
,le though the cost was, It may well be aues-
ioned whether IN Indefinite prolongation Of
hs war would not have cost both PARTIES
till more.