Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-07-24
GENERAL GRANT AT LAST
SUCCUMBS.
He Dies at Mt. MoGregor Yester'
day Morning,

the intelligence that relapse had
taken place, the family had been sent
for and all hope had been abandoned.
Therefore the news of the sufferers
death was not surprise. For
months the public has known that
his case was hopeless and it is in
deed surprising that he survived as
long as he did. Only few weeks
ago, in fact during the present month,
Gen. Grant, completed the last chap
tiers of his book and it will be issued
in few days in two volumes.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH.
Ulysses Simpson Grant was born
at Point Pleasant, Illinois, April 81,
1922, and was consequently 63 years,
3 months and II days old. lie was
appointed cadet to West Point, where
he was graduated in the year 1913.
His first military services were in
Mexico under General Taylor and
General Scott. lie afterwards did
duty in Oregon. In 1858 he was
promoted to be Captain. The next
year he resigned his commission and
took farm in the neighborhood of
st. Louis. In 1859 he removed TO
Galena, Illinois, where he was a
leather merchant.
His services during the civil war
made great part of the history of
the period. lie began as Aidc-de-
camp to the Governor of Illinois. lie
was afterward, in the same year,
chosen Colonel of the Twenty-frst
Illinois Volunteers. In July, 1861,
he was commissioned a Brigadicr-
General. Assuming command at
Cairo, he took possession of Paducah,
the result of which was that Kentucky
was secured. In January, 1862, Grant
was victorious at Belmont, and by
the middle Of February, he had cap
turcd Fort Henry and Fort DOnclson.
After these important successes he
was appointed Commander of the
district Of West Tennessee, and as
such won the great battle of Shiloh.
Gen. Grant was second in command
to Gen. Halleck at the siege of Cor
inth. When Halleck had been order
ed to Washington, he was appointed
to the command Of the Army of the
Tennessee. On July 4, 1868, he took
Vicksburg. In November of the same
year he gained the battle of Chatta-
nooga. He was made Commander
in-Chief of the Union forces in March,
1864, with the rank of Lieutenant
General. The Army of the East was
then re-organized by him, with the
arrangement that General Sherman
should operate against General j. e.
Johnston while he marched against
General Lee. In May, 1864, the two
armies marched in their respective
ways. Grant crossed the James Riv-
er in June, 1864. After much hard
fighting, with terrible losses to the
Union forces, on April 2, 1865, he
captured Richmond and Petersburg.
Seven days after Lee surrendered at
AppOmattoX Court House, Virginia,
which was virtually the end of the
war, as the Confederate armies in
North Carolina, Alabama and Tex
as surrendered soon after. In July,
1865, the illustrious soldier was COM
missioned as General of the Army,
by Act of Congress. AT the close of
the Forty-eighth Congress he was
again invested with the title of
General" which civil honors had
obliged him to resign, together with
the annual allowance of $4,000 from
the Public Treasury, for his support,
Grants services as Secretary of
War nd interim were succeeded by
his first election as President, in Nov
ember, 1868. He was elected to serve
a second term, in November, 1872. In
June, 1880, as every body remembers,
he was near being nominated for a
third term.
After vacating the Presidential
Office Mr.. Grant made tour of the
world. He was treated everywhere
with the greatest distinction.
The story of his business troubles,
as a partner with Ferdinand Ward, is
fresh in the public recollection. lie
was rescued from absolute financial
ruin, by the action of Congress, sup
ported by public opinion. The Cen
eral lived in New York after his re-
turn from his travels.
Last winter his health began to fail
and early in the spring a careful cx-
animation developed the fact that he
had cancer in his throat. By the
middle of March he was prostrated
and has gradually declined since that
time, with an occasional temporary
rally. His wife and four children
three sons and one daughter-survive
him.