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Headquarters ARMIES OF THE US. !
WASHINGTON CRY,
November 6, 1868. }
Soldiers Of the Union Army!
',''A - 1t is the
pleasant duty Of your commanding
General, to announce, that afterone
of the hardest fought battles of an
cient or modern times, victory has
again perched upon the banners of
the men who fought at Donnelson,
Shiloh, vicksburg, Gettysburg, Mis-
sionary Ridge, Atlanta. and Five
Forks.
Led on by substantially tho same
leaders you fought during four years
of bloody war, except that the men
who were then'your pretended friends,
are now your open enemies. your victo
ny is none the less signal, and com
plete, than your triumph over tho re.
bellion, which all supposed ended at
Appomattox and Jonesboro. II p
The loss of the enemy id killed and
wounded was terrific, while the rem.
enants Of their routed, and democrat.
izey army,have lain down their arms,
and are prisoners Of war.
Horatio Seymour, the command
ing officer of the Confederate forces,
escaped from the field Of battle, but
am just informed thatinleaping into
the enclosure of his Deerfield farm,
he became impaled on a picket
where he still remains, disabled from
hooking before, or kicking behind.
Frank Blair, the second in com
mand, is q prisoner in my hands, and
will be Immediately tried by u drum
head court martial, for deserving his
colors, and fighting against his old
comrades,and will be sentenced prob
ably, to travel.through the country,
with a temperance lecturer, to illus.
trate the frightful example OF intem-
perance, or else to close conin.
ment on quart of whiskey per day,
and compelled to road his own
speeches made during the compaign,
on the unconstitutional revolutiona.
ry..and void" acts of Congress, during
the war.
Where all did their duty with such
conspicuous gallantry, it seems in :
vidious to make special mention, bu'
l cannot refrain from referring in this
place, to the great services rendered
us by Gcnl's. Wade Hampton and
Forrest, in boldly developing the
true line Of the enemy; to priyates
Pendlet on and Vallandigham for most
lucid, and convincing expositions Of
their repudiating policies to Chap.
lains Burr and Dean, for their speech.
es in Maine, Iowa, and elsewhere,
where they done our cause such ex-
cellent service, by denouncing main.
cd soldiers like Sickles as eft car
cases for the gallows j" to Brick
Pomeroy, and all his faint imitators,
for establishing and maintaining such
cred hot" species of journals n,
that it has burnt out nearly every
vestige of democracy in the north !;
to the K. 4. T., who have given the
country in advance a foretaste of what
society would have been in the south,
had Seymour won ; and finally Trees
ommend for promotion of one grade
u plain Martin Van Buren, Bennett,
OF Iowa, By whose distinguished SER
vices, we have made most astounding
gains in every county where he spoke,
and more than doubled our majority
in the State, which he 80 thoroughly
and effectively canvassed.
Many Others did as faithful, if not
as effective and telling service, such
as Greedy, Logan, Sickles, Morton,
&c., &C., but until the reports of nv
subordinates are allin, cannot pre-
tend to do them full justice, by. spec.
itic mention.
Comrades of an hundred battles /!
your General thanks you, one and all,
for your patience in toll, your faith
in your leaders, and your heroism in
the conflict just terminated, which
will give our country security from
the assaults Gifts enemies, and what
1t SO much needs, Peace.
y. s. GRANT, General.
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