The New York herald., 1867-12-22
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Military HIstory Of Ulysses y. Grant from
April, 1861. to April, 1865.
BY ADRIAN BADEAU, COLONEL AND AIpE-DE-C AMI
TO rHE GESERAL-IS-CHmF. New York ID. Ap-
pleton Il Co.
Below we give some extracts from the advance sheets
Of this important and admirably written book
Hiram Ulysses Grant was born on the 9th OF April.
1922 at Point Pleasant, Clermont county, OHIO. His
father was OF Scotch descent and dealer In leather
Ulysses the eldest Of six children He entered the
Military Academy at West Point at the age Of seventeen,
the Congressman who procured his appointment giving
his name by mistake Ulysses S. Grant. simpson was
the maiden name OF his mother and was also borne by
one OF his younger brothers, this doubtless occaoned
the error Young Grant applied TO the authorities n
West Point and 70 the Secretary Of War have the
bunder corrected but the request unnoticsd his
comrades al adopted the initials u In his behalf.
lost in the army; and when he graduated in ls43 TWEEN.
ty-hrst in class OF thirty-nne his commission OF
brevet second lieutenant and his diploma both styled
him Ulysses ). Grant, by which name he has since been
known.
His regiment was the Fourth infantry; he remained
70 ne Army eleven years vas engaged IN every battle
brsvsts for gaantry and afterwards stationed at
various posts the canada frontier and finally in Cali
eldest daughter OF Frederick Dent merchant Of ST
Louis and in 1854 having reached the grade OF captain
70 Gravos, near St. LOUIS whore he owned and worked
farm. Afterwards in 1850. he entered the leather
trade, with his father and BROTHER at Gaena, Illinois,
oBscURITY.
ThuR when the civil war broke out, Grant was q
private citizen earning his bread In Insignificant
inland town. He was Of simple habits and tastes. with
out influence and unambtous Having never been
brought In contact with mon or eminence, he had
personal knowledge Of great affairs. He had mover
he had served under both and Taylor it was a.
suDal.srn and without any opportunity Of inter-
eoass coes M with those Rr.c commanders ma had nsys,
politicians, for hts acquaintance limited
70 army officers and Western traders in the town
where he lived had NOT met the member Of Congress
who represented the district for nine successive years.
and who Afterwards became Of his most intimate per-
sonal friends or his four children the eldest was
eleven years DID, He lived In little house at the top
Of ono or the picturesque hills which Galena 10 built,
and went daiy TO the warehouse OF his father and
retail Il. was % years @ Of ss. before biz coun
tsymen became acquainted with his name.
READINESS.
Fort Sumter fell the 18th April, 1861 and the
Presidents call for troops made the 18th. On
the 10Th Grant drilling company Of volunteers at
Gsena four days Afterwards went nth It to SPRING
neld the capital Of Illinois From there he wrote 70
the adjutant general OF the army, offering his services
TO tho government in any capacity IN which no could
porance TO preserve It stated that Grant had received
military education at the public expense and that
the country was in danger he thought i his duty to
place at the disposal Of the authorities whatever skin
experience be had acquired he received reply bus
remaining q Springfield, his military knowledge made
him OF service IN she organization Of the volunteer
troops OF tho state; and ~ the end OF five weeks the
Governor Richard Yates offered him the Twenty first
regiment Of Illinois infantry.
NIGHT BEEN.
Before receiving his colonecy Grant went TO Cncin.
natl TO visit Major General Mcclellan, then command
the old army, and although Grant had intention OF
making any application he still hoped that Mcclellan
might oier MIN place 3 on his stan He went twice 10
turned 70 Illinois without mentioning his aspirations TO
any one
now m FIXED THE HUNTERS OF KENTUCKY.
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the District of Southeast Missouri was the seizure OF
Paducah, the mouth Of the Tennessee. The Governor
Of Kentucky was at this time insisting that tho
State should maintain q position OF armed neu.
trality. and all Kentuckians who sympathzed
the sSs Sss sVf the ground T
United States authorities. but first violated
by General Polk, the rebel commander that
region. He seized Columbus and Hickman, the
Mississippi, and threatened Paducan, within three
days after Grant assumed his new command. All
Tennessee and the Ohio. Fremont had previously
ordered movement in Missouri whicn Grant was 10
Fort Holt, on the Kentucky shore, but on the I'd Of
September Grant arrived At Cairo, and on the 9th
nsar% ,n bso Ha a. once n. naa
oficer, well ~ tho Kentucky Legislature at Frank.
FORT and. later iE tho day, having received add.
Sni 81 nou,s s% getting s.a 90 70
win star, At six and half O'clock ssili later or
the bth, no swsote:"I am now nearly ready for Pa
ducah, should not telegram arrive preventing the move
Getting NO rsply, be started a. ton and half O'Clock
that nght with tvo regiments and light battery; he
also took gunb0ats the naval force that
hood being under his control He was delayed at Mound
City by accident TO OF hs transports but arrived
at Paducah u hafpast eight the morning Of tho 9th
The city was seIzed without gun being fired. Brgadier
General tt gilman and his sta or tho rebel army with
. company Of recruits, hurryng out Of town by the
rahrosd, south, while Grant was getting ashore A
Of y.S. w.. BE-
in the town; bot this movement saved Paducah and
the control Of the OHIO river Grant stayed In town
he returned 70 Cairo, whore he received Fremonts 3
permission 10 take Paducah sf he felt strong enough
The next day Brigader General G. +. Smith was put
10 cn w.s % .Sss.a d':s ;ss
SQTespSndlnf with the Legislative; but tha. body
~ bs s,. . ee Union
more was heard Of the neutrality Of Kentucky. The
seizure OF Paducah violently criticized by those
traits destined afterwards peculiarly 70 chsractsze thS
s''kif klE X ssum un, ABOUT mn aArri. a. sSEosr,
This battle eonrmed Grant the belief on Which he
always afterwards acted that whom neither party Is well
disciplined there nothing 70 gain In the matter OF dis
cipiine by delay. The enemy organzes and improves
q rapidly = yourself and al the advantages Of prompt
me strategic results accomplished by Belmont might
perhaps nave oesn Attained had the original design been
troops who had volunteered with the idea OF active cam.
pagnlpg were gstt restivs during the long delay
ing out, the blood Of officers ana men was up |;
had they been taken back then without
aght their confidence In themselves and In their
commander would have been impaired. Grant noticed
this, and II he had not received tho information
which his attack based would nevertheless have
made the assault The influence Of tho fight upon the
troops engaged was Of the happest sort IL gave them
confidence and fortitude which they never lost and
long Afterwards the belmont mem were known a.
among the stanchest soldiers in the Army Of tho Ton
nossee
The country, however, knowing Of tho objects
Of the movement and seeing only the fact that troops
had advanced and then retired, regarded tho affair az
disaster, while the enemy. OF course, heraded II for
rebel victory. Long after, many who looked upon
Grant OF the greatest Of soldiers declared that
he should be forgiven for Belmont. and remained guo
rant not only that IN accomplished than he was
sent do but that the very traits which contributed
most materially to his later successes were displayed
sgnally at Belmont - on any occasion during tho
war
GRANT AND sBERnAH
On the 18th Of February Grant assigned TO the
new Military Mstrict OF West Tennessee, With 'limits
not Defined and Brigadier General william r. sher-
man the command Of the dislrct Of Csiro Sherman
uAl.e