The Bad Lands cow boy. [volume] (Little Missouri, Dakota [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-1886, 1885-09-17
ARMY: OF THE TENNEssEE.
Gen. Sherman speaks;Feeiingly upon BIS
Recollectionsand the Character OF Gen.

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Recollections'and the Character OF Gen.
Grant.
The eighteenth annual reunion Of the So.
ciety Of tho Army OF the Tennessee was
held Mt Chicago Sept. 8.
Gen: William T. Sherman, president OF
the society, was in the chair. On the stage
with him were Gen. Logan and Governors
Oglesby, Marshall, Sherman and Fletcher.
In the body Of the audience were. Generals
Belknap, John B. Sanborn, NJ. NJ. Bone,
Clinton B. Fske, Hickenlooper, Force
and others. "A business meeting
was held during the day, and a
magnificent audience assembled at Cen
trail Music hall, when the set orations Of
the occasion were delivered. The exercises
were opened with prayer BY Bishop Fellows
Oglesby, who delivered glowing tribute to
the deeds OF the Army OF the Tennessee. He
was followed by Gen. William T. Sherman,
who spoke us follows: i
Comrades OF the Army OF the Tennessee:
Again we are assembled in the goodly city
OF Chicago, pursuant to- the resolution
made at our last; reunion OF Aug. 1914,
1884, ut Lake Minnetonka. This is four
eighteenth annual reunion. Though TWEEN
ty eventful years have transpired since the
close OF the war, need not repeat to You
VIZ eAAsS S-ApAGooloht pHdU ouI lauho ttIC
growing thinner, our hair whittier, and that
the eyes which lookup to me, and which
once kindled and flushed at the trumpet''s
sound, now seem sad, as though envying
the fate Of those fine young fellows whose
gay and gallant spirits took their flights
in the glorious days, the memories
of which we came here's to celebrate.
Though war makes the battle field har-
vest, yet in peace, industry invades
the most sacred premises, taking here THEM.
nocent babe, there the gentle, loving wife.
again the youth in lusty manhood and the
king on his throne. During the last vaca..
tion death has stricken from our list OF
members the very head and front, Gen. U.
5. Grant, the same, who i'll the cold winter
OF 1861 and 1869, gathered together at
Cairo, Ill, the fragments OF an army and
led them up the Tennessee river, the creator
and father OF the Tennessee. took, his final
leave on'earth on the morning ofJuly 90,
1885, from Mount McGregor, in plain view
OF the historical battle field Of Saratoga.
he had finished his LIES work and had be-
queathed to the world his example.
You, however, were at the battles front,
stood by him true and loyal always and
to his dying day he loved. the members Of
the Tennessee above all others byS reason
OF their loyalty to him in the darkest DAYS
OF his eventful life Gen. Grant was sent to
command the district OF Memphis. Gen.
Halleck himself being summoned to Wash
ington5to 95Sf s.jis! =,
2iE CAST ABOUT FOR tAN NEW coMa1ANDER
for the army Of; the Tennessee. { He offered
the post to a most worthy guartermaster,
who had the good sense to decline, and
himself being compelled to leave, tho COM
smand ct the West deyolyed on Gen: Grant,
not by selection, but BY virtue Of his SUI
perior commission. Thenceforward ! his
career was ever onward and upward and
when,o the 4th day OF July, Il 500, Vicksburg
surrendered to him, and the mighty Aiis-
ssippiwentunwatched to the sea; the whole
country arose and recognized nghim tho
agent who was destined to guard and lead
us to final victory and triumph. These
circumstances were all known to- you at
the time, were little sapp reciated and were
IN truth, the fires designed by Providence
OF him on whom 20 hole epoch in history
was tined to hinge. He always asserted
the most perfect faithin the justice OF our
cause, and always claimed that sooner or
later it must prevail, because the interest
OF all mankind demand the existence Of
Just such a republic as we;had ;erecteds
and that las by the concurrence roi
political causes the y conflict had
ia lien upon us, we had only to meetsit like
brave men and conquer as q matter OF
course. He always claimed that we must
follow up the rebel armies md compel them
to submit to the authority Of the national
government. He believed in acts, not, in
words; On O. war OF aggression, not 81 ma
newer and from Belmont to Appomattox
his strategy and tactics were the same, ever
straight to the mark, till armed resistance
had ceased and absolute submission to law
i Y authority was promised. To compare
Grant with Alexander, Hannibal, Napoleon,
or Washingt Ton seems to me FOLLY, for he was
not similar to any one, OF them any more
than the period Of time in which they ex-
listed resembled ours. Each epoch creates
it's own agents, and Gen. Grant more near-
y unprecedented the American character Of
1876 than any other living man. There
lore he will stand as the typical hero Of the
greatSciyil war in America OF the nineteenth;
century. +. . a t s$;ss3l}Ijy
You must ailrecall that at our meeting at
CleYelandin October 1883, Ilreported to
you that Gen. Grant Shnd told lne that 10
had something special to say to us OF the
Army OF the Tennessee in consequence OF
which you lected him the, orator for the
gust, 4 SS4. He intended to come, but at
the last moment his health and physician
forbade, and I'VE had to choose a substitute.
Again was he chosen for our orator upon
this occasion, and by the record he is still
the 0rntor. but he lis. now dead and must
speak to by his substitute, Gen. JohnB.
sSanborn who Inns kindly consented to full
FL the Office, md Il am well assured that
the special matter he wished to reveal to us
will be fully aborated, in his Forthcoming
memoirs. t.3 t sg Il & s "a ~ ~ ~
Grnnt needs no monument to pernrefu-
alto the memory OF his virtues. His weak
nesses lie buried with his bones but III one
or more monuments are to be erected to
crafty the living, let them be like him,
strong, simple: tlnra BILE, and in good TASTE
better initiate his example, accept the sit
uation, and erect one good monument on,
the banks Of the Hudson, where he now lies
buried in peace and MT rest eternhl.33 y
Gen. ohm y. Sanborn OF St. Paul then
delivered the annual address, which was
very long md interesting. FL 81 Il 4s3 5ii5s
y. Tho Ruined Ohio Town.
Washington Court House, the scene 81
the late disastrous cyclone, is the county
seat Of Fayette count 1t has had a most
extraordinary business growth within the
past fifteen years, and being the center Of a
rich agricultural & district, Nj it'll excellent
railrond facsli titles it had grown To bea bust
ness place Of considernh BILE import Its
residents had beam tilted the town with
tasty dwellings, and " | recently completed
court house one 81 the beat in the state.
The prosperous town ISL mass Of ruins.
The experience d. ito inhab itants has no
parallel in the history Of any town mi Ohio.
"a heavy rainfall began about 8 o'sloclr:
That and the darkness drove everybody
into shelter. Shortly after the rain began,
the wind came with q terrifs flying sound It's
work was almost instant aneous. People
say it was over in two minutes, but no.
body could take note OF time in so fearful
an experience. The fierce roaring Of the
tornado, the crashing d; broken and failing
buildings the thunder and the rain. com
lbined to produce sensations Of the most
!horrifying character. ": 81
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